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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/25/11

Neither democracy, nor a culture that respects human rights, can be exported at gunpoint: that is one of the lessons of the Iraq war. The neoconservative ideologues who told us otherwise weren?t just wrong: they were lying, as usual. Their goal wasn?t democracy, or anything remotely resembling it: their strategy was simply to smash up the existing Iraqi state, and atomize the region into small, squabbling splinter-states, all the better to dominate them and make the world safe for Israel. Now that their job is done in Iraq, they?re moving on to the next victims: Iran, Syria, and on into Central Asia. Or so they think...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/02/24/re-liberating-iraq/



Playing God in the Middle East

CounterPunch
by Michael Brenner

02/24/11

We are now in the 10th year of the first decade of the ?war on terror.? So the inevitable anniversary assessments are beginning to appear. Iraq reappraisals specifically are back in vogue. They favor the drawing of balance sheets. Most will be skewed in an alchemic attempt to put the face of success on an unmitigated disaster...

http://counterpunch.org/brenner02242011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Brenner
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