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Why Not Let Iran Institute Democracy in Iraq
(Noam Chomsky, Dissident Voice, November 18 ,2002)
The dedicated efforts of the Bush administration to take control of Iraq – by war, military coup or some other means – have elicited various analyses of the guiding motives. the Bush administration's efforts conform to "the classic modern strategy of an endangered right-wing oligarchy, which is to divert mass discontent into nationalism" through fear of external enemies. . . . The administration's goal, Lieven says, is "unilateral world domination through absolute military superiority", which is why much of the world is so frightened. . . . But the administration has overlooked a simple alternative to invading Iraq. Let Iran do it. . . . September 11 provided an opportunity and pretext to implement long-standing plans to take control of Iraq's immense oil wealth, a central component of the Persian Gulf resources that the State Department in 1945 described as a "stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history". . . . The modest proposal is for the US to encourage Iran to invade Iraq, providing the Iranians with the necessary logistical and military support, from a safe distance (missiles, bombs, bases, etc). As a proxy, one pole of "the axis of evil" would take on another. . . . Iran surely has far better credentials for war-making, and for running a post-Saddam Iraq, than Washington. Unlike the Bush administration, Iran has no record of support for the murderous Saddam and his program of weapons of mass destruction. . . . Granted, the modest proposal that Iran liberate Iraq is insane. Its only merit is that it is far more reasonable than the plans now being implemented – or it would be, if the administration's professed goals had any relation to the real ones.

posted by Lorenzo 4:35 PM