Iraq and The Global War on Terrorism

Frequent readers of Apropos know the Iraq and Global War on Terrorism is military adventure and political opportunism.

Every step of the way, efforts made by those prosecuting both adventures has been more in line with perceptions rather than material facts. The Ideological support for both adventures has come from quarters whose base has been all those discredited thoughts in history.

These past few days has seen an upswing in violent speech and it's activity in Iraq. The much touted "surge" seems to have only been a weave of promises, pay-offs and compromises and as is usually the case it's unraveling.

There is only one theme central to the Global War on Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction. Weapons of mass destruction is the only element that transforms the discussion. Violent speech in all it's forms against state power isn't
new---but this is relatively the first time a radical group is claimed to have as it's strategy, exploiting weapons of mass destruction. If Al Qaeda had been branded as another rocket grenade using group, no one with a straight face would propose or justify deploying entire armies against it.

But this is where military reality transforms into political opportunity. The technical know how for weapons of mass destruction is limited exclusively by certain specifics which then makes it simple and easy for control. The proposition is simple: were it all about the weapons of mass destruction question, this imperial Romanesque theater of orthodox or regular war will not be happening. But we have been subjected to entire armies deployed, order of battles quixotically ill suited to track down triggers for nuclear devices or chemical and biological agent manipulations---all to what end? Just to see the self-described sole super power humbled and frustrated by minds, if we are to buy the propaganda, whose political-economy is still in the stone age?

The only critique of the adventures, the Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have presented is the National Security one and that as I have shown is the only viable when squared with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the means, if not the employ of Political Opportunity of satisfying the concerns is naively unsound.

War and it's mongering has never been adequate direction for any advance in Political-Economy. Yes it catalyses economies but there has to be a set of suitable facts. The most recent failure, to this dialectical fact and its perversion has been the Soviet Union and there is space on the shelf for it's old Cold War antagonist, The U.S.

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