The End Of Civilization...

... means the Begin of a New Civilization

The End Of Civilization

By Dave Eriqat, 13 March, 2006, Countercurrents.org

I had a mild epiphany the other day: it's not President Bush who's living in a fantasy world, it's most of his critics who are. I'm no apologist for Bush - I neither like nor dislike him. He's no more significant to me than a fly buzzing around outside my window. So permit me to explain my reasoning.

People look at Bush's invasion of Iraq and see a miserable failure. But a failure to do what? Democratize Iraq? Eliminate Iraq's WMD arsenal? Reduce global terrorism? If those were, in fact, the reasons for invading Iraq, then the invasion would have to be classified as a failure. But what if the real reason was to secure Iraq's oil supplies, perhaps not for immediate use, and perhaps not even for use by the United States? Then the invasion of Iraq would have to be judged a success, a "mission accomplished," so to speak.

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