One prominent progressive Arab said "I spent 10 years trying to escape assassination by Saddam Hussein and after the sanctions I spent 10 years trying to help Saddam to survive the assassination attempts of the US so that he could put up a fight." his views are that the politics of domestic distortion and despotism in the Arab world will eventually collide with the interest of the US in re-colonisation and, more aptly, in as much as they divide the national line and segment the population.
But it has to be recalled that the US holds primacy, very much like the strong tendency of economics in assessing the driving forces behind social change, that in the end it is the US which is at the helm of history and the present international order and it is the US that sets the background and the stage for acting for any two-bit despot from the third world. Imagine a situation where the US adheres and applies strictly the UN Charter and the Human rights declaration, would that not be the best pre-emptive strike. That will not
happen now or any time in the near future. We will take the cue for the change in course of what the US will do on the outside with how well it handles its politics inside. A hint of change will come when it would, for instance, compensate the many victims of racism in its prisons who are overly represented in the jail population because of race and colour.
That said, I want to add: many of those who are familiar with the course of US politics and who work in the international arena knew that ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iraq was to be occupied by the US whatever the conditions it is in. Progressive forces could only implement delay tactics but occupation was inevitable even if it came at the expense of delivering a coup de grace to international law, and it did. The illusion of the two-party-system in the US is simply a political mediation of forces within the same ruling class harbouring the same ambitions or policy promulgated by the 'selective democracy' of the ruling classes in the United States. The occupation of Iraq represented a difference in timing and method not motive and there is no link whatsoever between method and motive apart from the fact that it is purely the balance of forces that decides the action. Put differently, the more sophisticated the method the bigger the crime. This means that the Iraqis are lucky that it was the republicans who invaded. Imagine how well the democrats could cover up the crime.
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