Sedan Bush-administrationen tillkännagav att man hade för avsikt att stanna i Irak i decennier, så är det som en bomb exploderat i USAs alternativa medier. The Nations Tom Engelhardt, som även står bakom den utomordentliga bloggen TomDispatch inleder en otroligt viktig artikel såhär:
Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country.
And its not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car bombs or the chlorine truck bombs; not the massive flight of middle-class professionals, the assassination campaign against academics, or the collapse of the best health-care service in the region;
not the spiking American and Iraqi casualties, the lack of electricity, the growth of Shia militias, the crumbling of the ”coalition of the willing,” or the uprooting of 15 percent or more of Iraq’s population; not even the sharp increase in fundamentalism and extremism, the rise of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the swelling of sectarian killings,
or the inability of the Iraqi government to get oil out of the ground or an oil law, designed in Washington and meant to turn the clock back decades in the Middle East, passed inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone–No, none of that.
What’s finally coming into view is just what George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the top officials of their administration, the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, and their neocon followers had in mind when they invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003.
Och deras plan är att stanna i Irak över lång tid, och tillvarata amerikanska ekonomiska intressen. Detta har varit den amerikanska doktrinen på många ställen i världen sedan andra världskriget. Men att planen var så i Irak var det kanske inte alla som tänkte sig. Men den har varit officiell ända sedan 2003. New York Times hade den 19:e April 2003, strax efter att amerikanska trupper gick in i Irak, en stor slående löpsedel som löd ”Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Four Key Bases in Iraq.”
Den började:
”The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say.
American military officials, in interviews this week, spoke of maintaining perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future: one at the international airport just outside Baghdad; another at Tallil, near Nasiriya in the south; the third at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western desert, along the old oil pipeline that runs to Jordan; and the last at the Bashur air field in the Kurdish north.”
Detta påminner mig om att jag måste läsa om (för tredje gången) Noam Chomskys ”Hybris”. Den förutspådde allt det här. Och en hel del annat som förmodas komma snart.
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