Fuse Lit for Total War in Mideast: U.S. Envoy...

[bridgit]

Warns against pulling troops out of Iraq too soon Country `really vulnerable' to an all-out civil war

'BAGHDAD - The toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003 opened a "Pandora's box" of ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf the region in all-out war and disrupt the global economy if U.S. forces were to leave the country too soon, says the top American diplomat in Iraq.

In remarks that were among the frankest and bleakest public assessments of the situation by a high-level American official, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the "potential is there" for sectarian violence to become all-out civil war, but that Iraq for now had pulled back from that prospect after the wave of sectarian reprisals for the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.'

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0308-08.htm

Behold!! the bush strategy all along, an oligarchic world of chaos, death, destruction, no-bid contracts & mega rewards for the super-rich

[teryang]

1. The fuse was lit when we invaded Iraq

The next false move will push us closer to total war. A civil war in Iraq doesn't have this potential. In fact, a US withdrawal would lessen the threat of total war. The threat of total war comes from American designs to expand its control from Iraq to Iran and then onward to other mideast countries. The threat of total war doesn't emerge from Iraq but from our belligerent policies of colonial hegemony.

[bridgit]

2. Behold!! the bush strategy all along...

[iconoclastNYC]

3. I don't understand.

Why don't these neocon freaks just build up the stategic petro reserves, carpet nuke the region, and send in Halliburtion go in and cap the wells. Seems like a win-win-win for them and thier friends. What's a little nuclear genocide? :sarcasm:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Yessiree. The best way to put out a fire is to throw kerosene on it.

I like the part about "Iraq, for now, had pulled back..", from civil war. Maybe the moron should read the local news in Baghdad, or look out the window of embassy.

Not to mention incidentals like forcing Iran into a corner by threatening them; menacing Syria; stirring the fire in Lebanon; and provoking the new government in Palestine.

But, Imperialism is good for the economy. Invest your kids.