Re:Syria has become a narco-state
by underseacables on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:30PM
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The Iraq war had more to do with Iran..
An fantastically dumb statement. USA is the biggest backer of Saudi Arabia — a country which is basically a Middle-Eastern North Korea.
Here is the context you are missing: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/08/the-larouchie-de...
Classicists and grand strategists tend to view history in cyclic terms, with long-running conflicts echoing through the centuries.
I would never accuse US foreign policy of being ideologically coherent. I'm just pointing out that this was an explicit goal of the US invasion of Iraq, direct from the horses' mouths. Are you calling me dumb for stating that, or them dumb for being incoherent?
> There are some in the Bush administration who hope that the fall of Saddam Hussein will be followed by a "democratic domino" effect across the Middle East.
> ...Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary... has said that Iraq as the "first Arab democracy" would "cast a very large shadow, starting with Syria and Iran, across the whole Arab world."
> ...specifically mentioned Syria, which according to CIA reports to Congress has a chemical weapons programme. Although not formally a member of the "axis", Syria is, in the eyes of officials like John Bolton, very much a candidate.