When it all falls down…
The fallout from the Iraqi television shoe-ter is putting that fragile government into a tailspin. High ranking officials are being run up on and arrested for suspicions of planning a coup to overturn the government. These dudes are from the ministry of the interior and the defense ministry. They are all reportedly part of a SADDAM HUSSEIN’s banned political party – Ba’athists.
All the death in Iraq has given the locals some kind of wanderlust for the good old days when SADDAM HUSSEIN tortured people to death in the privacy of his castle. At least the oil refineries ran on time some might day. Do you know what else I have learned about Iraq ever since the United States forcibly removed their dictator president SADDAM HUSSEIN from power?
HUSSEIN held that country together with smoke and mirrors. I would bet you that his control was ebbing and for that reason the United States had to step in and wrest control of the country from him before someone came to power who wouldn’t give us carte blanche to the country’s vast oil reserves.
The U.S. would have been fighting a war in Iraq no matter how you slice it or dice it. I shouldn’t be giving imperialism an excuse, but the truth is that if we hadn’t shed the blood that we did there would have ended up being a larger spill to clean up. This is why Iran now weighs heavy on my mind.
The middle east is destabilizing faster than we might have expected. You always had the Palestinian land grab by the Europeans in the west, but now in the east we see the Indians and the Pakis getting at each other’s necks. The Indians have a little more sense than the Pakistanis do because they have a lot more industry to lose but I don’t know if that will be enough to keep them in line if they are continually baited by the Pakistani government.
I feel like the United States is going to be in the middle east much like England was in India. Suffice to say, a very long time.
