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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (25505)7/31/2006 12:35:58 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (2) of 541762
 
It's one more signal that US occupation of Iraq is out of the question, even the obvious present plans to have long term bases in Iraq to protect oil resources.

It depends on what the aim of those bases is. They're self-sufficient, as I understand. If the plan is to just sit there and launch air raids, or massive combined assaults, on any chosen target, then US command may be ready to do this despite opposition from the nominal 'host'... especially since there's always the threat that the power implicit in said base can and will be turned against the host, at will.
So if (say) there are rocket attacks from within a population centre, that centre may be populated no longer (shades of Israel/Hamas).
Basically such bases would allow the exertion of military might and who cares what the natives think.

Wouldn't be popular but this doesn't seem to be either an aim nor an aspiration.
Also incredibly short-sighted in all directions of history - smacks of the crusader castles in the old Holy Land, and will inevitably breed further resentment, and not be continuable for many years, unless the base owners are truly happy to kill everyone and flatten everything within 50+ miles - but I really wouldn't rule it out on these grounds. <ng>
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