I've come to the difficult but unavoidable conclusion, based on the evidence of repeated regime change "failures" - as they seem to any sane person - that what Obama and the neo-cons really want is to break the Middle East.
With the exception of Israel, and, for now at least, our supposed allies: the jihad-spawning Saudis, the secular but weak Jordanians and Egyptians, the neo-con American government means not to put puppet regimes in place, so much as to create systemic instability, a permanent wasteland of ruthless chaos and serial destruction.
I don't come to this decision lightly, but one can only say "how can they be so stupid..." so many times before realizing maybe they are not so stupid after all, and civil war in Libya, stateless anarchy in Syria and most of Iraq, near total collapse of the government in Yemen, and endless fighting in Israel-Palestine is actually the desired goal.
It's about the oil, but not in the way people think, as Greg Palast's reveal of State Department documents calling for keeping Iraqi oil off the market and from competing with more expensive Exxon and Halliburton oil, proves.
It's obviously never been about democracy and human rights! Ha. We support exactly the opposite kinds of regimes in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and even Yemen, (which has in common with us only our love for guns), though to be fair, they have a front row seat for what it really means to be-either-with-us-or-against-us. It won't save them, however, when the game plan for total instability unfolds.
It must be the neo-con wet dream to see so many opportunities for defense, er, war, contractor business in a far off region where, it is supposed, the members of the weakened and disrupted societies will never again muster enough wherewithal to attack us on the "homeland" - a term which is nebulous and geographically stretchable enough to include whatever the neo-cons want it to include.
Welcome to the USA, sacrifice zones included!
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