best I've herd, the realpolitik behind the "war on teror" demogogy, the "pipelinestan" thesis, ...the great game again, ...a multi-player chess match now, ...and many residual side-variables, ...US foolishly trying to physically dominate a game where finesse and foresight are the premier skills.
Israel,.to be precise, is a 19th cent colonial race-state, ...even less right to exist than aparthied South Africa. And its criminality, its ethnic cleansing/Palestinian genocide, over now 60 yrs mounts to a world historical stature of a magnitude with the Third Reich. It is an abomination that cries out for justice.
The realities arguing the other way (as Scot Horton pts out) are compelling,.. i.e., the only way to save the Iraq policy, since Iran were otherwise the clear beneficiary of the destruction of the Baath regime, is to directly go to war with them, -the more honest approach advocated by the neo-cons, or to precipitate a civil war.
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