Even Reese isn’t all that committed about U.S. forces leaving Iraq. In his memo, he says that during the withdrawal period the U.S. and Iraqi governments should develop a new strategic framework agreement that would include some lasting military presence at 1-3 large training bases, airbases, or key headquarters locations.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDans le texte de Huber, nous avons donc droit \u00e0 une avalanche de consid\u00e9rations, de citations, d’affirmations, etc., sur la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de conserver des troupes US un peu partout, et ce d\u00e9sordre sans doute voulu de l’expos\u00e9 finit par produire l’effet recherch\u00e9, menant \u00e0 la chute que nous avons signal\u00e9e plus haut. Cela concerne la seule chose qui soit assur\u00e9e, massive, complot r\u00e9ussi sans aucun doute, Grand Jeu men\u00e9 \u00e0 son terme, qui est le spectacle de la monumentale stupidit\u00e9 de ce syst\u00e8me en action soutenue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abLasting military presence. That’s been the objective of the neoconservatives all along. In their September 2009 manifesto Rebuilding America’s Defenses Cheney’s pals at the infamous Project for the New American Century argued, While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein. The neocons’ Pax Americana vision has translated into the Pentagon’s long war, a strategy that does not seek to win wars but rather to create a sequel to the Cold War in which Islamofacism substitutes for communism and puny Iran, whose defense budget is less than one percent of ours, replaces the Soviet juggernaut.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat might be justified if military applications overseas were making us safer from terrorism, but they are not. In 2008 the highly respected national security analysts at Rand Corporation released a report titled How Terrorist Groups End. The study involved a comprehensive analysis of terror organizations that existed worldwide between 1968 and 2006. 83 percent of the groups ended as a result of policing and political action. Military force accounted for a mere 7 percent of success against terrorists. Rand analysts recommend that the best course of counterterrorism actions should involve a light U.S. military footprint or none at all. We’re almost certainly, as Donald Rumsfeld suspected in 2004, making multiple new terrorists for every one we capture or kill. We have discovered a new style of warfare: reverse attrition. The more enemy we attrite the more enemy we have.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAll the talk about withdrawing from Iraq is an Orwellian card trick. Reese says our lasting military presence should not include the presence of any combat forces save those for force protection needs or the occasional exercise. Why would we need to leave noncombat forces behind? So they can cook and clean for the combat forces that provide them force protection? The exercises we might do with the Iraqis would involve practicing for the invasions of Iran and Syria, which is the real reason the warmongery wants to keep an enduring base of operations in Iraq. There’s no need to conduct defensive exercises. None of Iraq’s neighbors is capable of invading and occupying it or crazy enough to try.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPresident Obama’s promise to remove all U.S combat troops from Iraq by August 2010 was also a see-through canard. As Gareth Porter revealed in March, the advisory and assistance brigades that will remain after that date will in fact be combat brigades augmented by a handful of advisers and assistants. The Cold War justified defense spending for a half-century. Now, the Pentagon is trying to validate its existence with another long war in the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSun Tzu famously said, No nation ever profited from a long war. The 27- year Peloponnesian War ended Athens’ reign as a superpower. The Thirty Years’ War Balkanized the Holy Roman Empire, dividing German power among multiple smaller states. The 46-year Cold War forced the Soviet Union to change its name back to Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbDon’t expect us to withdraw from Iraq or the Bananastans any time soon. The American warmongery, a confluence of Big War, Big Energy, Big Jesus, Big Israel, Big Brainwash, and Big Brother, is trying to entangle us in a state of constant armed conflict that will carry on into the next American century. There’s no need for anyone to challenge our hegemony; all they have to do is sit back and watch us collapse under the weight of our own stupidity.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe titre de l’article est \u00ab Perpetual War for Perpetual War<\/em>\u00bb, ce qui est assez justement trouv\u00e9, en donnant cette impression de mouvement perp\u00e9tuel et sans fin, sans but, sans rien du tout, sinon l’id\u00e9e assez vague mais imp\u00e9rative de faire tourner la m\u00e9canique. Il est vrai qu’apr\u00e8s huit ans d’activit\u00e9s intenses et de revers catastrophiques, de bases \u00e9tablies \u00e0 grand bruit qui servent \u00e0 assurer le ravitaillement continu et massif de conflits qui semblent n’\u00eatre conduits que pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer l’effritement et la dislocation des forces US, on ne trouve pas trace d’un seul ennemi qui serait capable d’infliger le dixi\u00e8me des dommages que la machine de guerre US s’inflige \u00e0 elle-m\u00eame et, indirectement, qu’elle inflige \u00e0 l’\u00e9conomie et \u00e0 la stabilit\u00e9 du pays dont elle est cens\u00e9e \u00eatre l’\u00e9manation la plus puissante et la plus irr\u00e9sistible. Ce processus est fascinant, comme est fascinant le concert d’acclamations enthousiastes, de la part de toute une \u00e9lite cens\u00e9e \u00eatre en place pour d\u00e9velopper une pens\u00e9e efficace, qui l’accompagne et l’encourage sans discontinuer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 8 ao\u00fbt 2009 \u00e0 18H10<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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