Get ‘em, Paul
Belligerent Until the Bitter End
If You Can’t Win One War, Start Another
By Paul Craig Roberts
04/07/06 “Baltimore Chronicle” – – The Bush regime currently has wars underway in Afghanistan and in Iraq and can bring neither to a conclusion. Undeterred by these failures, the Bush regime gives every indication that it intends to start a war with Iran, a country that is capable of responding to US aggression over a broader front than the Sunni resistance has mounted in Iraq.
The US lacks sufficient conventional capability to prevail in such widespread conflict. The US also lacks the financial resources. Iraq alone has already cost several hundred billion borrowed dollars, with experts’ estimates putting the ultimate cost in excess of one trillion dollars.
Moreover, the Bush regime’s belligerent foreign policy extends to regions beyond the Middle East. The Bush regime has recently declared election outcomes in former Soviet republics as “unacceptable.”</i>
