Bring our troops home? Just so we can send them somehwere else?
Although, the United States government is guilty of serious war crimes with the invasion of Iraq, I keep thinking that ‘Keep America in Iraq’ is not necessarily the worst thing for the rest of the world at this time.
‘Keep America in Iraq’ is surely the secret prayer of the left wing governments in Central and South America. With America totally absorbed in the Mideast, it gives blossoming leftist governments to our south a chance to help their people out of the bonds of the Corporate / US stranglehold of their economies. The Americas are blessed to have such an incompetent US administration. It brings with it a very incompetent CIA, FBI and military. As long as they continue their bungling, the Americas are left relatively free. Add to that the fact that the neocons are forced to use second and third stringers to fight the covert wars in Central America, there is a chance for real democracy down there.
With the election of any of the democrats, save Dennis Kucinich, the interventionist policies will be continued, only they will be more lethal because they will be run more competently. Just look at what happened under Bill Clinton with reasonably competent people. Look at what a Clinton presidency, with covert CIA involvement, did in the former Yugoslavia. Look at James Carville’s and Bob Shrum’s recent work to subvert democracy in the Bolivian elections. If anyone thinks that the rest of the world will be better off with Democrats, then they are having some fuzzy fantasies about the reincarnation of Jimmy Carter.
The best thing that could happen for the Americas is for Rudy Guliani or Fred Thompson to become president. These incompetent fools would continue the Bush legacy of incompetent foreign policy, and consequently, leftist democracies would continue to grow in the Americas.
The ‘military-industrial-petro complex’, always needs a playground. With globalization it has become all the more vicious. Let’s not change Iraq for a country in South or Central America or for that matter anywhere else.
Once the Americas can stand up to the USA, it will set a situation where US hegemony may finally be put in check. It is not going to happen from within. The United States cannot fix itself. It is an organizational organism that is beyond the ability to be fixed from within.