US targets Iran's Revolutionary Guards
"...Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong military branch..."
The Guards would be the first national military branch included on the list... a highly unusual move because it is part of a government, rather than a typical non-state terrorist organisation.
Listening to Democracy Now, Wednesday morning, Naomi Klein compared the "war on terror" to the "dot com boom" of the 90's. In the context that Naomi describes, we can see that increasing the size of the terror network, now by 125,000 from a national military, is desirable.
Naomi Klein on Democracy Now
"...the Bush administration used the dislocation of 9/11 to pursue the very same pre-9/11 radical capitalist project, now with a furious vengeance, under the cover of war and natural disasters... Bush sent in Paul Bremer to seize new markets on the battlefields of his preemptive war. He didn’t have to negotiate with anyone. He just rewrote the country's entire economic architecture in one swoop. But, of course, if you said that the war had anything to do with economics, you were dismissed as naïve. It was, of course, about security, about liberating Iraqis from Saddam."
**** "...everything from waging wars to reconstructing from those wars to disaster response became an entirely for-profit venture. This was a bold evolution of market logic. Rather than the ’90s approach of selling off existing public companies, like water and electricity, the Bush team was creating a whole new framework for its actions. That framework was and is the war on terror, which was built to be private, privately managed from the start. The Bush administration played the role of a kind of a venture capitalist for the startup security companies (that venture capital is taxpayer money or ultimately taxpayer debt- Sande), and they created an economic boom on par with the dotcom boom of the 1990s. But we didn’t talk about it, because we were too busy talking about security."
Recently I find myself coming back to wanting a new investigation into the attacks of 9-11. What Klein is discussing is something that is far too complicated to implement in 1.5 years, September 2001 to March of 2003. The Project for a New Amercian Century only takes it to the level of military dominance. We must assume that simultaneously think tanks were working on the economic implications of creative destruction as it is applied to the invasion of nations.
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The BV$Hiviks having learned from the looting of the Soviet economy by the Russian gangs after the fall of the Soviet Union set out under the cover of war to reshape Iraq in its own image. The Iraq economy was a semi-state owned affair like many ME states of its era. The BV$Hiviks all ardent free market zealots set out to smash every vestige of this structure and re-build it in its own way. We all see the results.
At least three major aspects of the Iraq invasion required distant planning: military, economic policy (including the direction of US taxpayer money into the ventue), and media PR to sell the war.
Which think tanks developed the economic policy?
Tee American Enterprise Institute , the Hoover Institute and the Cato Institute.
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