Letters to the Editor
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Permanent Bases
Both Kevin Phillips and Greg Palast's recent books point out that unexplored Iraqi oil is the key to understanding the latest invasion.
This should be a no-brainer for most people, but I think Americans are so schooled in a 'lite' understanding of politics, and a naive belief in the good intentions of both political parties, that they miss the real point.
And those immense, expensive, hardened bases in Iraq? Do you think even the majority of Democrats are going to advocate hundreds of trucks, tanks, etc. head for the Kuwaiti border and completely leave the country? No, the troops are going to pull back to the bases. That is what the discussion really is between the two parties.
After all, Jimmy Carter announced in the "Carter Doctrine" in, what, 1979, that the middle east was a 'strategic' area for the U.S. This is what he based U.S. support for the Jihadist's in Afghanistan against the Soviets on, and helped create the present Frankenstein.
Honesty is not what politics is about. Hiding your real intent is fundamental to an imperialist power. If you don't know that is where we live, you are like the Roman citizen who thinks it really IS just a circus.