[Vision2020] PNAC: Rebuilding America's Defenses

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Ted,

I certainly think your post spells out the real reason for the Iraq War, and 
the reason we are building permanent bases.  The ISG did not disagree with 
this long-term goal in its report.

Sunil


>From: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>
>To: "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: PNAC: Rebuilding America's Defenses
>Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:58:17 -0800
>
>Sunil et. al.
>
>Consider this escalation of the Iraq war (I'm not going to use the 
>euphemism
>"surge") in the broader context of the Pentagon's goals to increase the 
>size
>of the US military for a variety of global operations, a goal that once
>achieved may become the semi-permanent size of US forces, Iraq war or not.
>A good justification is to "win" the war in Iraq via committing more
>troops.
>
>But one way or the other, I believe our military bases will remain in Iraq
>for decades.  Iraq has the third largest reserves of petroleum, behind 
>Saudi
>Arabia and Canada, and the Middle East overall has the most oil of any
>area.  The US cannot take the long term risk of Middle East oil under the
>control of regimes unfriendly to the US, and regime change in Iran, the
>dominant threat from a potential anti-US/anti-Israeli Islamic super
>power, has been the main goal of US Middle East policy, with Iraq a mere
>stepping stone, as the Project For A New American Century spelled out in 
>the
>late 1990s, in the academic study "Rebuilding America's Defenses" presented
>on the PNAC web site:
>
>http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
>
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>The national security and economy of the US in fifty years, or whenever
>petroleum depletion signals the fossil fuel golden age is ending, will
>demand that we can guarantee access to those resources.  Whoever has access
>to the remaining fossil fuel reserves, by force if necessary, when not
>enough remains to distribute these resources as though all nations on Earth
>have a right to access, will be in control of the global economy.  Unless,
>of course, there are alternative energy sources available to most all major
>nations on Earth, that are practical and affordable, that can replace 
>fossil
>fuels on the grand scale of energy consumption we now take for granted from
>fossil fuels.
>
>Ted Moffett
>
>
>
>On 12/27/06, Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>http://www.juancole.com/2006/12/top-ten-myths-about-iraq-2006-1.html
>>
>>
>>It appears that the decision for a 'troop surge' has been made, and now a
>>rationale has to be created to justify that decision.  To what end?
>>
>>Sunil
>>
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