Fanning the Flames of War

[arisbe]

With the so- called Sunni triangle in flames after the gruesome Falluja attacks, why is Bremer pushing the comparatively calm Shia south into battle?

Here's one possible answer: Washington has given up on its plans to hand over power to an interim Iraqi government on June 30, and is creating the chaos it needs to declare the handover impossible... --Naomi Klein in Baghdad, from The Guardian

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Perhaps not creating the chaos but making it obvious.

usual

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

as usual I hope this is a suspicious and
alarmist politically driven interpretation
(in this case by Ms Klein)...a hope which of
course you join me in.
but ,as a good percent of the time of course
(the kind will not guess a precise percentage)
on things ,I may be wrong...However, however I
say, I did win my basketball pool so when next
we meet may be spending money like a drunken
sailor.

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

That would be in character for them.

Consider their plan to gut the social security system. First, they willingly create an financial impossible situation by spending lavishly on military adventures abroad and police-state infrastructure at home, and then they say "Oh... We can't afford to keep funding these programs. They will have to be cut. What a terrible shame."

Same behavior. First they willingly create anarchy, and then they say "Oh... We couldn't possibly leave, the situation is much too unstable. What a terrible shame."

Government by willful blundering.

The "Big Lies" of the Thirties and Bush's

[publius-aelius.livejournal.com]

Hitler did not look like what he WAS in 1936, and anybody who'd have DARED to say that the Fuhrer was a monster or a genocidal maniac would have been "beyond the pale" in polite society in England, France and America. Believe me, I know, I've read the history of those pre-war times and they have a weird other-worldly feel to them.
By the same token, this President is a monster, who believes, deeply, that Muslims are untermensch. Oh, I know the words belie that. Please stop heeding the words; they're meaningless, like Hitler's idiotic, illogical, "Big-Lie" babble; instead, pay attention to the ACTIONS: under Bush America is literally TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

The real motivations for recklessness?

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

When people know that they've gotten themselves into an impossible situation, when they know that they're "in over their head" and thus can't cope, they tend to become accident prone, because they unconsciously want to fail, because failure means being able to drop the heavy weight, descend from the precarious heights, and live at a more comfortable level. I wonder whether this can happen to whole nations. If the United States were a person, I would wonder whether it wants the burden of empire (and that of not just keeping up with the proverbial Jones, but constantly surpassing them) violently torn away. Or perhaps it's just a sick combination of ordinary rapacious greed, adolescent cravings for revenge and adventure, and narrow-minded racism and provincialism.