Re: We are bogged down in the Middle East because of Israel, not oil. Iraq was perceived as a threat to Israel, not to Saudi Arabia and certainly not to us.
Indeed... and here's why Israel --with its exclusive sovereignty over Jerusalem-- is so important to US elites:
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Of course, to admit the above would lead to debunk the very democratic myth about the US --and, incidentally, its EU allies... I once pointed out that, unlike US opinion, Arabs at least perfectly know why they're at war with Israel and its US patron: they are well aware of the religious and ideological fanaticism that underpins the Zionist agenda... That's why, in the early days of the current Iraq war, a Baghdadi answered his TV interviewer: "We don't want the Americans to stay... we know Bush wants to turn us Iraqis into Palestinians..."
And Arab leaders don't cheat their public opinion on the ins and outs of US involvement in the region.... Yet, contrariwise, US --and to some extent, EU-- opinion is shamelessly bamboozled and kept in the dark... Ironically, it's the self-proclaimed Western democracies that struggle to hide and censor the REAL motive that drive their Mideast policies, namely, an exclusive Judeo-Christian grip on Jerusalem (*).
Both the US and its European auxiliaries must conceal it because their respective opinions wouldn't abide by such an irrational, mythological agenda... They're no longer willing to spill their blood for the sake of lunatic rabbis and televangelists. Another rationale, more mundane, more sensible, more acceptable, must be offered to them --hence the "pincer propaganda"! US public opinion got trapped between two equally bogus rationalizations of the Iraq war: the WMD hoax for right-wing conservatives, and the "greedy oilmen" for left-wing bleeding hearts....
Gus
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