READING THE ENTRAILS
That touted ‘crescent stretching from Spain to Indonesia’ contains vast energy resources. The entire essay is more than worth your time.
The Bush administration needs the Terror/al-Qaeda bogeyman to justify the military occupation of strategic countries that have or are near to major oil and gas reserves. It needs al-Qaeda to justify the lily pad bases in Kyrgyzstan etc.
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Bush needs torture […] to generate false information that exaggerates the threat to his regime, so as to justify repression. He needs the ritual of confession and naming others, to have it down on paper so he can show it to Congress behind closed doors. But Bush/Cheney’s ambitions are global, not just internal. Article
