Building Boom in Iraq – An Ominous Development
In the midst of all the other controversies, all the “thousands of... errors” we have made in Iraq, the biggest mistake of all may be occurring right now… with little fanfare, and very little intense scrutiny it appears that our government is establishing permanent military bases in Iraq. Huge facilities housing thousands of service personnel and hundreds of aircraft are being build in various parts of Iraq. Our leaders refuse to say whether the plan is to make them permanent, or to hand them over to the Iraqi government, when there is a viable government.
This is a potentially ominous development in light of the assertions made by bin Laden that he was motivated to strike at the US because we established a military presence in the Saudi kingdom. The point isn’t whether or not al-Qaeda will attempt to strike at the US again because of the se bases, the question is: to what extent will the appearance (if not the fact) of military bases in Iraq continue to radicalize parts of the population – especially young people – to such an extent that US troops may not be able to leave that country for decades. In a sense creating the possibility for permanent bases may be one way to ensure that they are in fact permanent.
This is an ominous development that seems to be getting more so every day. Check out one such story here.