Persian Fire, by Chris Floyd

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/12/16/120.html

So now we know: Next time the fire will come in Iran. The blow will be delivered by proxy, but that will not spare the true perpetrator from the firestorm of blowback and unintended consequences that will follow. Even now, the gruesome deaths of many innocent people in many lands are growing in futurity's womb.

The move will be popular in Washington as well. Only a fool would believe that the fools in the Bush Regime have abandoned their bloody-minded ambitions for "full-spectrum dominance" in the Middle East, just because Iraq has turned to goo in their hands. To these schemers, Iraq has always been merely a stepping-stone toward the "far enemy," Iran. Indeed, they used Saddam himself for years as a useful stick to bash the Iranians, until he stepped out of line with his attack on the Bush family's longtime business partners, the Kuwaiti royals. Murder, torture and military aggression are always welcome in the service of Washington's power elites, but defiance is not allowed.

But while this endemic lunacy of our human kind plays its part, the real bottom line for the Bushists is, well, the bottom line. Iran itself is but a stepping-stone to the ultimate goal: putting U.S.-controlled hands on the spigots of Middle Eastern and Central Asian oil, thus providing a brake to control the political rise of China and India, and ensuring a "new American century" of unchallenged profit and privilege. For the elite, of course; as always, the suckers back home will get stuck with the bills and the body bags from these geopolitical games.

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It might take a few days or a few years. These people are lunatics.

Hitler foresaw that the continental powers of the Soviet Union and the United States would dominate the world of his day if he didn't do something about it right quick.

Similarly, American elites see the same threat, not in fractious and divided islamic nations, but in the emergence of an Asian power block that is becoming more immune to American power projection on a daily basis.

As long as islamic states can steer a sovereign course, Asian states will have competitive access to world energy markets.

"This has got to be stopped now or we are doomed!" say the energy companies, the war profiteers, and the fundamentalist chorus. In essence, the extremist position gives up on competition and embraces aggression.

The secret energy plan devised at the outset of this administration was a war plan.

what these criminals are doing and why.

Now if only more people would try to understand...