[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [socialistdiscussion] How the US rules

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

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It is not often that we can get a view of exactly what measures US 
capitalism takes on a daily basis to influence a foreign government. 
Recently, however, a top former official in the State Department under 
both Bush and Obama wrote an article 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-stuck-with-maliki--and-lost-iraq/2014/07/03/0dd6a8a4-f7ec-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html?wpisrc=nl_hdtop> 
in the Washington Post explaining exactly who met with whom, when, etc. 
in Iraq. He explains, for instance, how he met with Maliki daily and how 
Bush had weekly video conferences with Maliki. He also explains how the 
Iranian regime intervened at a certain point and how a weakened US 
regime was unable to counter them. But his explanation isn't abstract; 
he cites exactly who went to Iran and when and what was told to them. 
This is a blow-by-blow account.

The author believes that the problem was that the Obama administration 
should have been able to foresee the sectarian disaster that Maliki was 
creating and that there were other, viable options. In the end, however, 
he disproves his own claim when he refers to the rising sectarianism 
throughout the region. Why should Iraq be any exception?

This article is really worth reading.

John
P.S. for those who are interested, I have a short review 
<http://oaklandsocialist.com/2014/07/09/iraq-is-now-a-failed-state/> of 
the article along with a link to it on the oaklandsocialist web site.

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need them" - from movie "Il Postino"
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