The Peace Process as Treason :: SaneWorks

This political cartoon renders what we all know to be true. Iran is devouring Iraq before our very eyes.

Notwithstanding the anti-war crowd’s chants that the neo-cons are driving Vice President Cheney, who in turn is pushing President Bush, to start a new war front with Iran, the evidence would suggest that practically nothing would bring President Bush to take that step.

Let’s take our own step back. Just the other day, the army did what it doesn’t usually do. It announced in clear no uncertain terms that Iran is the insurgency’s big warehouse. Planning, weapons, money, and even manpower. Syria is playing a role as is Saudi Arabia, but each in turn a lesser one than Tehran.

That Iran covets Iraq could not have been missed by the Bush administration prior to the war. First, there was the centuries-long struggle over the border region of Khuzestan and just recently Saddam’s almost decade-long war on Iran in a bid to take advantage of the new and weak revolutionary regime. (Arguably, Saddam was also motivated by the real threat of a religious regime of hostile Shia on Iraq’s border.) Second, Iran’s Ayatollahs have long considered the Shia world as part of its Caliphate and that most certainly goes for the Shia of Iraq who make up the overwhelming majority of the population and the group most tyrannized by the Hussein regime.

That being said, President Bush and his military team developed a war strategy in Iraq. That strategy was to overwhelm the Saddam regime and then to piece together a Shia-led coalition government based upon western liberal democratic principles. We have certainly written enough on this subject for any SANE reader to understand just how insane this approach to civilizing the Middle East through democracy-building was and continues to be.

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