From good ol’ Atrios.
No, Really, This Time…
Yet, for once, saying that the next six to 12 months will win or lose the war just might be right.
Of course what he’s talking about is whether politicians will decide to keep over 100,000 troops there forever, or just a lot longer. And, suddenly, actual political progress in Iraq is basically irrelevant.
I’d argue that it’s been irrelevant since the beginning. It never mattered what kind of progress was made in Iraq, political, military, social, or economic.
It never mattered at all. That’s what Jackson Diehl and I think a vast majority of Americans just don’t understand.
Progress in Iraq of any type is irrelevant because we’re never leaving Iraq.
Let me say this again for those who are holding out hope that somehow our troops will “win a victory” and “come home”. They aren’t coming home. We’re never leaving Iraq.
The plan all along was a beachhead in the Middle East for what will be the coming resource wars over oil in the region. Period. The USSR went in first and they collapsed. The neocons are convinced we can do it better, so now it’s our turn.
We may be forced out of Iraq someday, but we will never leave under our own volition. The collection of powers the Bush Administration has stolen from the rest of the government has been done for one purpose and one purpose only: to eliminate any and all resistance to the perpetual resource war state.
None of the major Presidential candidates of either party are saying that they will leave Iraq and return these powers to the Constitution. Those who are promising as such will never be allowed close to the seat of power. Witness Ron Paul being excluded from the last debate on FOX because he’s a “fringe candidate” despite polling higher than Fred Thompson. The fix is in.
The endgame of America is a neo-feudal state where the elite control practically all the wealth, and use it to both oppress the rest of America and to force it to fight in resource wars to gain more for the elite. At home, we’re turning into a fascist police state where dissent is not only not tolerated, it is becoming increasingly illegal.
We’ll be six to twelve months away from knowing how Iraq will turn out 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, and more from now. We’ll always be told victory is right around the corner. Those who figure it out it’ll never happen will be dealt with.
The coming election will seal our fate.
