Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 15:41.
"Purely" economic? No. But I would argue that (the exploitation of) Western guilt about the Holocaust, the power afforded Christian Zionism, and "mainstream" abhorrance of Palestinian terrorism and Ahmadinejad's blood-lust are all properly viewed in the context of the global war for control of oil. Cheney and Rumsfeld don't give a hoot about the Holocaust, the Old Testament, or even Israelis getting blown up in pizza parlors. But they understand that they can use all that to build a powerful political coalition to acheive their Kissingerian aim of assuring US global dominance in the coming century. That doesn't make the "cultural" factors irrelevant by any means. But nor, ultimately, are they determinant.
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Key word is "purely"
"Purely" economic? No. But I would argue that (the exploitation of) Western guilt about the Holocaust, the power afforded Christian Zionism, and "mainstream" abhorrance of Palestinian terrorism and Ahmadinejad's blood-lust are all properly viewed in the context of the global war for control of oil. Cheney and Rumsfeld don't give a hoot about the Holocaust, the Old Testament, or even Israelis getting blown up in pizza parlors. But they understand that they can use all that to build a powerful political coalition to acheive their Kissingerian aim of assuring US global dominance in the coming century. That doesn't make the "cultural" factors irrelevant by any means. But nor, ultimately, are they determinant.