Thinking Outside the Box

Mike Miller notes a warning from a "private researcher" used by Richard Clarke pre-9/11 when he couldn't get the straight story from the FBI:

Where is the man who singlehandedly created from scratch a formidable guerrilla army in occupied Iraq and whom Osama bin Laden called the Emir of Al Qaeda in Iraq? . . . The answers may be found in a letter from Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s second in command, to Zarqawi, from July 2005...

‘’The jihad in Iraq requires several incremental goals. The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority or emirate . . . a caliphate — over as much territory as you can to spread its power in Iraq, i.e., in Sunni areas. The third: Extend the jihad wave. . .”

In disinterested propaganda analyses found in a Chinese government-censored news site, you can read:

...Like or not, the US will get chaos, and cannot do anything to forestall it...

A tragedy is unfolding whose final curtain never comes down. Washington must prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, because the Ahmadinejad regime wants an oil empire stretching from the southeast shore of the Caspian Sea to the southwest shore of the Persian Gulf... President Mahmud Ahmadinejad cannot abandon Iran's nuclear ambitions any more than Adolf Hitler could have kept the peace with Poland in 1939 and remain in power.

Aerial attacks on Iran's nuclear capabilities - Washington's only effective option - will set into play Iranian assets in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere, precipitating a regional war...

This is not a news source friendly either to Bush [i'm not either] or America [which i'm not only friendly to, i care very much about]. Neither is Ms. Katz, despite her utility to Richard Clarke. Something about the woman and the organization she represents reeks Mossad. They both encourage the paranoid fantasies the NeoCons fear and the Rumsfeld Imperials use to justify their actions.

But they may be right.

Particularly if we follow their advice.

When people who profit from war advise you to war, their predictions are likely self-fulfilling prophecy.

You want to end the struggle in the Middle East? You want to end the new Great Game the Powers are playing on the surface of the world? Then really, the path of action is quite simple: do what Dear Leader seems to fear the most.

Disengage.

Develop energy alternatives that don't depend on fossil fuels.

Quit treating Corporations like citizens. They aren't. Right now it's like Animal Farm, and they're the pigs more equal than others.

Don't listen to politicos, even "our" politicos. Listen to what wise people say:

Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.