Some interesting thoughts there.I've argued before on the strategic reasons for establishing a U.S. military stronghold in Iraq,as the war unfolds it is becoming increasingly obvious that the reasons given by the White House for this war are not ,and have never been,plausible.
The actions that have been taken in Iraq mirror those of Britain in the late 1800's and early 20th century.Paint the leaders of another nation as savages,blunder in and install your version of peace and christianity at the point of a gun,milk the country of its resources and use it as a forward staging post for the next mission.Thus was built the British Empire.
We are now moving into the era of the American Empire.Little has changed in the methodology or the self-righteous propaganda used to justify it,only the scale has changed.America is far bigger than Britain was a hundred years ago.It is a much bigger consumer,requiring far greater amoutns of resources to fuel the American Dream.And of course,it has much bigger and nastier weapons with which to enforce its 'gunboat diplomacy'.
The mission for Iraq is simple.
1/take Iraq from Saddam.
2/ensure that the next leader of Iraq is a leader in name only.
3/Use Iraq as a staging point for troops and missiles.
Bush has already threatened Syria for allegedly supplying hardware to Iraq.Don't be surprised if suddenly he decides that there are large numbers of terrorists hiding there that need to be removed'for the good of the world'.