The Physics of Iraq

Back again, this time with a new writer and what should be an obvious commentary. I say obvious, because anyone with half a brain and a half-hour could have figured out, billions of dollars and thousands of corpses ago, that this escapade in Iraq was utterly doomed to failure. That some complained but most rolled right over tells me that we are all to blame. Even Morphizm, and we've been warning about this type of shit since 2001 when The Decider took over the country. Literally.

In any case, this piece from Morphizm's newest contributor Robert Freeman on the physics of Iraq's invasion and eventual withdrawal is a potent dose of truth-telling, and we still could use more of that than anything these days, Democratic takeover or not:

The Gravitational Physics of a Settlement in Iraq
[by Robert Freeman]
"This unraveling of the Middle East is simply the final playing out of the same anti-colonialist dynamic that shook the world in the aftermath of World War II. Between 1945 and 1965, more than 100 nations threw off the mantle of western colonial domination in wars of national liberation. Of all the major regions of the world, only the Middle East remained subjugated. It is now peeling itself out of what, for the last 60 years, has been the American orbit. America's own empire will be irreparably harmed. It has long been based on control of the world's oil and, through oil, on the dollar as the world's reserve currency. Both of those props are rapidly failing and will soon be gone. Neither Bush's nor Baker's vision can halt the decline. Unfortunately, gravity is unkind to the impetuous. Just ask Icarus..." READ MORE

I can't wait until I no longer have to post any stories on Iraq. Or Iran. But I'll probably be dead when that time comes. And so will you.