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[leasetrader Press] Who's To Blame For $4 Gas?: Some say the Bush administration's provocation of Iran and Venezuela, coupled with a botched occupation of oil-exporting Iraq, has contributed to the geopolitical tension. But defenders say that, in the long run, the administration's actions will eventually lead to a more democratic - and thus stable - global supply.
[Hypocrisy.com] The Politics of Hypocrisy: McCain slips out from under his rock: From the Senate floor he stated that he could not “in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of the middle class Americans who most need tax relief.” That was six years ago when he had lost his bid for the presidency and was, by several accounts, disgusted with the way the Bush campaign was waged.
[Recent articles | ukwatch.net] Afghanistan: Mirage of the Good War: What was initially viewed by some locals as a necessary police action against al-Qaeda following the 9.11 attacks is now perceived by a growing majority in the region as a fully fledged imperial occupation. Successive recent reports have suggested that the unpopularity of the government and the ”˜disrespectful’ behaviour of the occupying troops have had the effect of creating nostalgia for the time when the Taliban were in power.
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, March 6, 2008: Rose notes the criticism of the policy by neoconservative David Wurmser, who left the Bush Administration after the Hamas takeover, accusing the Administration of “engaging in a dirty war.” “It looks to me that what happened wasn’t so much a coup by Hamas but an attempted coup by Fatah that was pre-empted before it could happen,”
[News Dissector Blog] Obama Goes One On One With Clinton, Key Issues Missing in Debate: While Israel’s Winograd Commission has certainly pulled no punches in excoriating the Israeli military and political leadership for their botched war in Lebanon last summer, there appears to be a massive lacuna in its conclusions. Israel went to war in haste without a considered plan, without weighing alternatives, without establishing clear objectives and without an exit strategy.
[The Budz] It’s the Oil: The occupation may seem horribly botched on the face of it, but the Bush administration’s cavalier attitude towards ”˜nation-building’ has all but ensured that Iraq will end up as an American protectorate for the next few decades - a necessary condition for the extraction of its oil wealth. If the US had managed to create a strong, democratic government in an Iraq effectively secured by its own army and police force, and had then departed, what would have stopped that government from taking control of its own oil, like every other regime in the Middle East?
[Louis J. Sheehan] squeak: The United States has been driven to isolationism by its “debacle” in Iraq, Russia and China are “obsessed with Muslim markets,” and Israel, led by a “party hack of a prime minister,” who botched the war with Hezbollah in 2006, will now be “like a rabbit caught in the headlights” as Iran prepares to launch nuclear-tipped Shihab missiles at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Be’er Sheva. In this scenario, which Morris implied is nearly inevitable, the Israeli leadership knows that it cannot launch a unilateral attack on Iran, for fear of igniting a “world-embracing” terror campaign:
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