We finally know the future: We're staying in the Middle East at least 50 years.

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: We finally know the future: We're staying in the Middle East
at least 50 years.

Date: Sep 9, 2008 6:43 PM

"While in Iraq, Keane talked to Petraeus about his future. Petraeus's
next
assignment -- commander of NATO -- seemed set.

"NATO was important, Keane said, but its time had passed. The
international
center of gravity had moved to the Middle East. "We're going to be
here
for 50 years minimum, most of the time hopefully preventing wars, and
on occasion
having to fight one, dealing with radical Islam, our economic
interests in the region
and trying to achieve stability," Keane said.

"This shift would have huge implications for how the U.S. military
would be
educated and trained. "We're going to do it anyway because we don't
have a choice," Keane said. "So the issue is: Get over it. Come to
grips
with it." The Army didn't want that. "It wants to end a war and go
home. But that's not going to happen."

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Welp. There ya have it.

There would be no reason to be in the Middle East 50
years if it were not about oil, because, figger,
the Arabs could handle the likes of Bin Laden.

Or, maybe I should say, Russia can handle the Israelis
and their bumbling little ops here and there like
Georgia, the imaginary Syrian nuke site, Lebanon,...

Naan 'leben Quaeda was a sting, like duh 1993 WTC Show.

= = =
Kinda of a funny way for Bush to not be "micromanaging" a
war, eh? Doin an end run around the chain of command
and insisting on the establishment of colonial rule
in the middle of the Middle East (and insisting we were
not leaving)?

Clearly the officers actually charged to run the war
were not aware that Shock and Awe was meant to be
permanent.


This Woodward book is the New Pentagon Papers.

Kathleen M. Dickson