The "War on Terror" is now spiraling into (the promised and feared) regional conflagration. Sparkling new talking points about a "civil war" and the "responsibilities" of occupation. First in Pakistan and Iraq, then Lebanon and Palestine, intra-ethnic/religious fighting is now a recognizable pattern. In each country, unsigned assassinations and sectarian bombings have commenced. In one (should be) famous incident, British SAS commandos were caught red-handed in Basra, dressed like Arabs with a car full of explosives and remote detonators.
Instead of what's been called the Salvador option, it's starting to look more like the Africa Option. Surround the resources with mercenary armies and destabilize the rest of society with permanent militarization, terror and fratricidal wars armed and cultivated from the imperial centers of Europe and North America. Get the oil from the Persian Gulf like the diamonds from Africa, and let the "natives" slaughter each other.
Making sense of what is happening in Iraq and the larger Arab world is increasingly difficult, with the mainstream media unreliable for both its narrow coverage and smothering blanket of imperial ideology. Getting a handle on events is more important than ever, with incoming Democrats a-okay with a troop increase and leading sections of what's supposed to be an anti-war movement taking marching orders from the Democrats (by way of the CPUSA ).
In other words: some sections of the "anti-war" movement is not even opposing the war!
Larry Everest has been writing an informative and detailed analysis of the so-called War on Terror that's worth the time to read.
The High Stakes in Iraq – For Them... And For Us:
• Part 1: The Crossroads in Iraq – Why the U.S. Went to War
• Part 2: Quagmire
Previous by Everest: There Is No War on Terror | The Baker Commission: Desperate Straights, Deep Divisions, Dwindling Options
I've also posted Jonathan Cook's must-read meditation on US and Israeli designs in full below. Cook argues that a provoked series of civil wars may be part of their plans for strategic domination in the region.