Summary:  While the evidence accumulates that we’re accomplished little in Afghanistan, we continue to pour vast sums into building bases there. Perhaps in time to be abandoned like the vast bases in Iraq, also built at great cost. Meanwhile components of our vital infrastructure rots away, with people unemployed who could be rebuilding them. Seldom has the wealth …
The invasion of Iraq achieved what might be its primary purpose: a chain of bases from which America can project power throughout the Middle East (see links at the end for more about this). Now the colonization of Afghanistan begins (the past 7 years, Operation Enduring Freedom, being just a holding action). Across Afghanistan a …
New bases in Afghanistan – more outposts of America’s Empire Read More »
One of the most important sites on the web for those following geopolitics is, in my opinion, Tom Engelhardt’s TomDispatch. He covers aspects of the world that remain almost invisible to our mainstream media. Here is another look behind the curtain, at things hidden from most Americans. Please read the full article; the excerpt just hints …
The foundation of America’s empire: our chain of bases around the world Read More »
One of the Iraq War’s many oddities is the near-total absence of discussion about the two poles around which everything else rotates: the air war and our permanent bases. The first is — far more than COIN — the primary expression of our power in Iraq, allowing us to dominate it with so few troops. …
The Real War in Iraq, seldom mentioned (do not disturb the slumber of America) Read More »
Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (aka Stratfor) has built a well-deserved reputation for reporting, analysis, and forecasting geopolitical events. But just as valuable, I believe that they provide a reliable window into the thinking of US corporate and political elites. In this respect they have proven especially prescient about Iraq. Five years after the invasion most Americans do not understand why we are there, which Stratfor …
Stratfor’s analysis of US reasons for invading and occupying Iraq Read More »
