31 October 2003 - No Win for US in Iraq

The US has failed in Iraq, and short of a miracle will continue to fail. They had a chance to become servants of the people of Iraq. But instead they went in with arrogance and tried to impose their ideas, their systems, their corporate interests. The honeymoon period is over and they have evidently lost a lot of the trust of the population. As resistance fighting against occupation grows, the US has put itself in a no win situation: If they start to speed up their efforts to leave it will be seen as a result of resistance fighters' success. This will only fuel the resistance to the occupation. If, on the other hand the US digs its heels in and insists on staying as long as it judges it necessary, then resentment will grow and this too will fuel resistance to the occupation.

Either way the US loses the "peace". But then what is a win? Since this war has been driven by Zionists, the goal is - and remains - nothing more than crushing Israel's enemies and potential enemies. There was and is no virtuous goal being pursued by the US and so nothing can really be won for the US. The goal posts have been moved and moved again in a series of pretexts which only mean more and more destruction to the Iraqi people. This of course is a roaring success for Israel and, not surprisingly many Iraqi's think that the latest bombings of civilians achieve nothing for the resistance effort but only serve the goals of Israel, who they see as behind them.

Currently the US listens primarily to Israel's staunchest supporters when making policy in Iraq. But the US has been tricked by its "prince of darkness" advisors. The oil won't flow, democracy won't come to the Iraqi people because it will be chaos like it has been in Algeria if these arch Zionist advisors continue to be followed. The US will lose and the Iraqi people will lose.

If the US truly wants to see a democratic Iraq which will be a model for the rest of the Muslim world then they really must wise up to the situation. The only way out of this problem for the US is demonstrably to listen to the people of Iraq and then demonstrably, sincerely and humbly to obey their will.

Given the arrogance underlying US unilateralism, the chances of this are remote. But things change, maybe those in charge of US policy will be changed too.