- What
if the Neocons get their next wish? Rummy and Wolfowitz of Arabia and
Sheik Colin raise the decibels on the Syria rhetoric, bring US troops
up close to the Syrian border "to prevent escape of Iraqi VIPs
and entrance of Syrian and other Arab Mujahadin." And
then, George W. decides that God has told him, has honored him with
the vision to invade Syria. Religious fanatic converts make claims
like that.
This will take at least a few
months. George's friends in the military industrial complex have to build
a new batch of cruise missiles. Military products are the Bush family
business, don't forget, starting with the Carlyle Group. Bush will give
them enough time to make another ten or twenty billion dollars, and then,
as, remarkably, the Iraqis chaos seems to be settling down, as the IMF and
WTO and WB parasitically settles in, getting comfortable, forcing the Iraq
to allow UK and US oil corporations to "help" privatize Iraqi
oil for pennies on the dollar, George will turn his attention to Syria,
discover unacceptable aid to Iraq, declare Syria a terrorist nation (it is
one) and go full blast into Syria and its controlled "colony,"
Lebanon.
- Israel
will rejoice. After all, Syria has, through it's proxy state, Lebanon,
rained Katyusha rockets on Israel since the Intifada began.
Israel will probably use the new Syrian-Lebanese war to ramp up its
occupation of the west bank and Gaza.
Here's where it gets
interesting. Outside of the Iraqis who have been rejoicing on camera for
Fox and its sell-out alleged journalist colleagues whoa re really
propagandists for the Bush regime, most Arabs are very upset about what
the US did to Iraq and Saddam. They all agree that Saddam was a bad guy,
but to them, Bush is worse. Just like much of the rest of the world, they
think Bush is the most dangerous man on the planet. So, they listen very
carefully when Rummy, Wolfowitz and Powell talk negatively about
Syria, the next target on the neoconservative, Project for a New American
Century hit-list. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya-- they've all been given
naked, unveiled threats or suggestions that they are a little further down
the target line.
So... what if they don't wait?
Unlike Iraq, which had been militarily castrated for 12 years, Syria,
Saudi Arabia Iran and Libya have been on spending sprees buying weapons of
mass destruction-- fighter jets, smart bombs, GPS technology. They have
money, troops, and allies. They own good chunks of the US and could send
the stock market into a further spiral that might make new records. What
if they not only pull all their investments out of the US, and stop
supplying oil to the US, but they also decide that, since they're in line
as targets anyway, they decide to fight back. What if they attack our
fleets, bomb the Iraqi and Kuwaiti airbases and do horrendous damage to
our troops? They will surely do Haliburton a favor and ignite hundreds of
oil wells, and destroy pipelines. Of course, they could not defeat our
combined forces. But they could do incredible damage to our Middle East
troops and military position, overtaxed as it is.
Of course, any such action
will draw our remaining allies Bulgaria, Poland and Australia into the
fray. Great Britain has said it does not want a part of any further war
plans. NATO's participation will be questionable, since we've taken
such extreme measures to distance and alienate them. We'll probably be
unable to keep Israel out of it, since surely, Syria will lob more than
Katyusha rockets at Israel's major cities.
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This is a terrifying
scenario. But is it any harder to imagine than the Supreme court aiding
and abetting the Governor of Florida and his Corrupt election
commissioner in the theft of the presidency of the United States?
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Once we reach the point
described, with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and possibly Libya
involved in a regional conflagration, the religious far right-- the 50
million readers of the Left Behind book series that explores life on the
planet after "the Rapture" when the messiah comes back, at the
"end times" as predicted in the New Testament-- may actually
be happy about what's going on. They will be a big part of the Positive
poll numbers George W. will surely pull when his media partners at the
major polling groups ask the "right" questions. Matter of
fact, they've surely played a major roll in Bush 70+ support figures
he's been pulling since the war began. These religious supporters see
the Iraq war as a step closer to meeting their messiah and leaving this
earth.
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With India and
Pakistan juggling Nukes, just waiting for an excuse to drop them, with
N. Korea and Israel primed and ready to go with their own nukes, it's
time for the congress to pass a bill, really fast that makes it clear
that the war it authorized with Iraq was the limit of the authorization,
that any attack on any other country is strictly forbidden. That's
something for the democratic party and the candidates to endorse and to
get behind in a big hurry.
Rob
Kall rob@opednews.com
is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com
and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world
leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon
Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story This
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