I read the Stratfor article and I find myself in mostly agreement with their assessment as to why the Bush administration went after Iraq and why they're handling the homeside PR so badly. Stephen Den Beste also thinks that Iraq is a beachhead in a larger war effort, and he dismisses the debate about weapons of mass destruction as a simple political tool that the administration used to further its ultimate goals. In Den Beste's opinion, that goal is simple: the destruction of fundamentalist Islam.
I haven't read through all their archives so I don't know if they have an answer to a very important question: why Iraq? There are a lot of places we could go and play Empire and try to establish Pax Americana, some of which are a lot more dangerous to us. (North Korea? Saudi Arabia? Syria?) Why Iraq?
This is my core issue with the war. Was Iraq chosen as a result of 9/11, or was 9/11 merely a pretext to implement an existing plan to invade Iraq? Will the administration do anything else on their "war on terror" now that they've occupied Iraq, or is their mission really accomplished?
Discussion Thread:
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RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Seth Dillingham at 4/21/2004)
On 4/21/04, Mark Morgan said: >I haven't read through all their archives so I don't know if they have
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Re: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/21/2004)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Mark Morgan wrote: > I haven't read through all their archives so I don't
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Re: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Brian Carnell at 4/21/2004)
Mark Morgan wrote: >I haven't read through all their archives so I don't know if they have an answer
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Re: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Brian Carnell at 4/21/2004)
Brian Carnell wrote: >Mark Morgan wrote: > > > >>This is my core issue with the war. Was Iraq chosen
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RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Mark Morgan at 4/21/2004)
Brian Carnell wrote: > >It's very odd, btw, to talk to people, like an academic friend of mine, >who
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Re: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Greg Pierce at 4/21/2004)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Mark Morgan wrote: > Or worse we do half a job of it and leave a trail
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Re: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Brian Carnell at 4/21/2004)
Mark Morgan wrote: >When the US decides to do this, though--overthrowing other countries, even for arguably
