America's Geopolitical Nightmare and Eurasian Strategic Energy Arrangement

by F. William Engdahl
May 7, 2006

Part I: The disintegration of the Bush Presidency

By drawing attention to Iraq and the obvious role oil plays in US policy today, the Bush-Cheney administration has done just that: They have drawn the world’s energy-deficit powers’ attention firmly to the strategic battle over energy and especially oil. This is already having consequences for the global economy in terms of $75 a barrel crude oil price levels. Now it is taking on the dimension of what one former US Defense Secretary rightly calls a ‘geopolitical nightmare’ for the United States.

The creation by Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and company of a geopolitical nightmare, is also the backdrop to comprehend the dramatic political shift within the US establishment in the past six months, away from the Bush Presidency. Simply put: Bush/Cheney and their band of neo-conservative warhawks, with their special relationship to the capacities of Israel in Iraq and across the Mideast, were given a chance.

The chance was to deliver on the US strategic goal of control of petroleum resources globally, in order to ensure the US role as first among equals over the next decade and beyond. Not only have they failed to ‘deliver’ that goal of US strategic dominance. They have also threatened the very basis of continued US hegemony or as the Rumsfeld Pentagon likes to term it, ‘Full Spectrum Dominance.’ The move by Bolivian President Evo Morales, following meetings with Velezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, to assert national control over oil and gas resources is only the latest demonstration of the decline in US power projection.

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by comparison with the Bushies driving us into a wall at 100 mph with no seatbelts.

of Omaha, Nebraska. Maybe less.

The thing that struck me was an amazing naiveté about world dynamics, how complex the world really is. They made it so simple: just go out and grab the oil.

The writers seemed rigid, unable to realize that when you deal with people, anything goes.

When I came to the part about the "Benevolent Dictator" I was just astonished. After I got over the shock, I realized they weren't kidding.

Here's the Coup de grace: William Krauthammer (one of the signers of the PNAC) even mentioned other Empires in history. (OH! OK, they have in fact read history, I thought).

But no - he reassured the reader that WE the United States would never do any of the stupid things other Empires did to fall by the wayside.

WE'RE DIFFERENT.