“The 'big bang,' as invading Iraq has sometimes been called, was meant to reorder the nature of politics in the region. This has been accomplished in a fundamental way. The idea of dividing an enemy force into its constituent parts and then dealing with it piecemeal is at least as old as Caesar's actions in Gaul. It applies no less to US strategy in the Middle East. Every faction there has been made to reconsider its relationship with every other. Rather than there being a monolithic clash of civilizations, thus far the US is dealing with the area in pieces -- in whatever way it sees fit to do so -- whether making it tacitly clear to Syria that what happened in Iraq could more easily happen to it, or threatening Iran on behalf of the region and world, or seeking cooperation with the Saudis in hunting down al Qaeda.â€Â
I think Syria has been fighting us in Iraq for some time. Leave it to the neo-cons to describe the blood on their hands as make-up. Bush was right about WMD and the spurious 9/11 Saddam conspiracy? Like Garcia Lorca said, “The blood of children in the streets is just like the blood of children in the streets.â€Â
try this:
empirecat