[akash]

Ping !!!

[MJY1288]

Very good article, I agree 100%

[anthony634]

Great article - Thank you for posting it. Hope it contains some modicum of truth.

[txhurl]

Thanks, this is interesting.

[Cicero]

Right on target. I was especially struck by this confirmation of why I think we are going into Iraq first:

"The obvious cases are two unrepentant state sponsors of terrorism: the Saudis and Pakistan. The Saudis can’t be bucked now because they can throw the world economy in chaos. But let Iraq, which some experts believe may have more reserves than Saudi Arabia, come back on stream and let the Russians get back to Soviet-levels of production. At that point, the Saudi oil weapon disappears."

[rdb3]

I'll be honest. I am impressed with and admire this administration. It's not perfect by any means, but I'm more impressed by it than anything.

Great article.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent ant thought provocating article!

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[Paul Ross]

This analysis could be an accurate guage of what the Administration is really thinking. But it does not change the likelihood that they are dead wrong about installing mob-democracy in this pan-arabic region. It will not change a thing. They will still adhere to the Koran. They will still oppress all other religions, and women. They will still harbor nothing but hatred for and warfare againt, the West. The basics of the vilifications against Western values have been inculcated too deep. I am not convinced that GWB's theory that the genie of democracy is able to turn these states into modern peaceful republics. Keep in mind, that Hitler came to power in a democratic Weimar Republic. I am, up to a point, willing for GWB to go ahead and try it. But we should be preparing our own people for the possibility of the failure of the scheme....and readying for the worst case scenarios...educating them as to what we really are fighting.

[Jumper]

Democracy in Iraq, three possible democratic states, with US and Westren Civilization support. This is the crux of opposition to America's war on terror in the Middle East. Approximately a two-thirds majority of countries "representated" at the United Nations do not allow their citizens any democracy and are either communist or run by dictators like the Arab Shieks. All tryants fear freedom and it's spread.

[okie01]

You guys will want in on this.

Great article. Confirming what most FReepers figured out months ago, of course...

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent article and thanks for posting it.

[185JHP]

The world will be much safer for Americans and American interests when we establish that those who threaten us, or attack us, can expect three things on a grand scale: pain death impoverishment.

[Turbodog]

A "Grand Strategy," indeed. Thanks!

[kayak]

Interesting that it takes a journalist from India to "get it" ..... our American media are too busy dreaming up reasons to bash President Bush to seriously analyze the situation.

[maica]

When Haass visited India, he made it a point to meet a cross-section of Indian Muslim leaders. Why? Because Indian Muslims are the second largest Muslim population in the world and among the poorest. Yet, he said, none of them is a member of Al-Qaeda or its affiliates.

"I asked the leaders why this was so," Haas said, "And they said we live in a secular democracy. When we have problems we have alternatives to terrorism."

Third, US officials have quietly hinted that they are of the view that Iraq can be the wedge that will open the Arab world – and Iran – to the fresh air of representative government.

I guess Freepers are better than most in getting "hints." This strategy was certainly not a secret to me. Reporters in 'respected' media outlets must never have listened to anything that President Bush, Dr Rice, Secretary Powell, etc have said.

At least this writer can see the plan.

[maica]

HOOVER INSTITUTION



John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis was a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution from 2000 to 2002.

Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the cold war. His books on the subject include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 (1972, 2d ed., 2000); Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History (1978, 2d ed., 1990); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982); The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987); The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reconsiderations, Implications, Provocations (1992); We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997); and The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002).

Gaddis has also taught at Ohio University, the U. S. Naval War College, the University of Helsinki, Princeton University, and Oxford University. During the 2000–2001 academic year, Gaddis was again at Oxford as the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College.

Gaddis is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project. He served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary "Cold War" and is currently working on a book on a biography of George F. Kennan.

Gaddis received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin.

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[Poohbah]

US grand strategy and Iraq

You misspelled "strategery."

[Billthedrill]

Thank you for that posting. We will know when the job is done when the Islamic world embraces participatory government and emancipation of women, and at the same time "educated" opinion in Europe continues to maintain that the Americans are stupid. That sort of hegemony is much more effective than empire - and much longer-lasting.

[bert]

.....A fuzzy plan "turns out, upon closer examination, to be a plan for transforming the entire Muslim Middle East: for bringing it, once and for all, into the modern world......"

This statement is a rehash of my posts for the last year.

It has been stated over and over by guests on Fox news but always ignored by the Fox guys and the majority on Free Republic.

[schu]

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