DUBYA'S GLOBAL WAR ON ISLAM IS NOW REAPING IT'S HARVEST OF RAGE IN INDIA...AND ELSEWHERE...
THE NEW OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL HAVE TO FIND WAYS TO TONE DOWN THE NEOCON RHETORIC AND HYSTERIA FROM WASHINGTON AND ELSEWHERE AGAINST ISLAMISTS GLOBALLY...
CLEARLY THINGS ARE GETTING OUT OF CONTROL AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF "WAR ON TERROR."
WHAT ARE THE ROOTS OF THIS TROUBLE...?
1. CERTAINLY IN THE REFUSAL OF ISRAEL AND THE US TO SETTLE THE WEST BANK ISSUE...AND IMPLEMENT A TWO STATE SOLUTION... THE SLOW GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS ON THE WEST BANK AND GAZA...AS NOTED BY PRESIDENT CARTER...HAS TO STOP.
2. ANOTHER SOURCE OF TROUBLE IS THE OLD COLD WAR REGIMES THAT THE US PUT IN PLACE...TO "FIGHT COMMUNISM"... THESE CORRUPT ELITES ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THEIR PEOPLE...BUT HAVE MORPHED FROM BEING ANTI-COMMUNISTS...TO BEING ANTI-ISLAMISTS...
SO IN AN ODD WAY...BUSH'S "LIBERATION" OF IRAQ...FROM SADDAM...(WHO WAS A CIA STOOGE IN THE 1970'S)...WAS A GOOD THING... IRAQ IS ACTUALLY MORE DEMOCRATIC NOW THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE REGION...BUT STILL ANTI-AMERICAN AND ANTI-ZIONIST....
IN EFFECT THE US TURNED ON IT'S OWN PUPPET GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ...WHEN IT REMOVED SADDAM... SADDAM'S BIG SIN WAS HIS POPULIST ANTI-ISRAEL RHETORIC...WHICH SHARON AND THE ULTRA RIGHT LIKUDNICS IN ISRAEL FOUND OFFENSIVE.
THE NEOCON INVASION OF IRAQ....EMPOWERED IRAN...AS AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE...
AND THE ANTI-AMERICANISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM THAT THE INVASION CREATED HAS NOT DISIPATED...
NET-NET.... IT WOULD BEHOOVE OBAMA TO TRY A DIPLOMATIC APPROACH TO THE WAR ON ISLAM... BECAUSE THE NEOCON APPROACH...WHILE PROVIDING INTERESTING RESULTS...IS JUST NOT WORKING.
SETTLING THE WEST BANK...AND PROMOTING AN ISLAMIC STYLE "CLAN BASED" (NON-JEFFERSONIAN) DEMOCRACY IN THE REGION...IS THE ONLY WAY FOR OBAMA TO GO...
BECAUSE SUPPORTING AND/OR INVADING REPRESSIVE REGIMES IS COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE AT THIS TIME.
THE BUSH WAR ON ISLAM HAS BEEN A DISMAL FAILURE...
