How the American Imperial Dream Foundered in Iraq »
Posted By hyperbola 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsAt all levels of society, usually at great sacrifice, the Iraqi people frustrated the imperial designs of a superpower. As the occupation wore on, the Bush administration found itself swimming against a tide of resistance of a previously unimaginable sort, and ever further from its goals.
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FTA: "Whether consciously or not, [Iraqis] have sacrificed themselves to halt Washington's projected military and economic march through the oil-rich Middle East on the path to a new American Century that now will never be."
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Thank you, thank you Universe!
Also FTA: "Americans should resist the very idea that Iraq could ever become the headquarters for a permanent United States presence that would, . . . . 'put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.' Unlike the Iraqis, after all, the citizens of the United States are uniquely positioned to bury this imperial dream for all time.
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And burying the insane delusion should occur 'round about early November 2008
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