Robert Fisk wrote, >Because I rather think that this war's >foundations were based not on military planning but on >ideology.
I would be hard pressed to identify the 'ideology' at the foundation. I think it would be more useful to describe the guiding motivation as an 'aesthetic', in a pseudo-Wagnerian sense. The Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz crowd who _composed_ this horrific Gesamtkunstwerk seem to have been drawn to the aesthetics of 'shock and awe', blitzkreig, decapitation and liberation (with beautiful young [blond?] girls throwing flower petals beneath the feet of the liberators, no doubt). The fantasized 'beauty' of their war to these 'artists' no doubt convinced them that it just had to work. Keep in mind what Karlheinz Stockhausen said about the 9/11 attacks being the "greatest work of art". The architects of the Iraq invasion apparently thought that with their vast arsenal of special 'fx' they could, at the very least produce the greatest spectacle ever. Tom Walker 604 255 4812
