Now in relation to Iraq the strategic dream of the Neo-Cons - themselves defined as a group of the US intelligentsia by an unusual and 'interesting' intellectual trajectory - was that within a new century policed by overwhelming US hegemonic power, a whole Middle East in which oil not only flowed smoothly to lubricate the imperialist forces of production, but there was a bourgeois imperialist civil society across the whole of the Near and Middle East in which the Zionist state is smugly secure, the Palestinian refugees are absorbed as lumpen proletariat in a supposedly expanding global capitalist economy. Crucially that the large intelligentsia stratum of Iraq and Iran, instead of serving state regimes openly and covertly supporting Palestininian suicide bombers (the real axis of terrorism) would be in the service of a liberal "middle class" largely urban civil society, pre-occupied with cafes and minor features of semi-privileged consumer lifestyles, in a capitalist economic environment ultimately dominated by the largest finance capitalist corporations, especially the US ones.
Chris, I can't parse this at all. Can you clarify? Maybe it just needs some extra commas and semicolons...
Joanna
