Middle East Attrocity, Iraq War, Jeb, Neocons

  I've been mulling over a few of the articles we've been looking at lately and I wanted to try to draw some connections here.

  First, we have one aspect of the Middle East arising over and over. That would be the intense brutality. The brutality comes in all directions, from the state, in war, in severe trauma, etc. We know about sexual torture as a political tool, beheadings by ISIS and the Saudis, self immolation, suicide bombings, rape, chemical warfare, a list of atrocities that defies the alleged civilized time that we live in.

  You could make the argument that in the USA we see similar brutality given our history of lynchings, shootings of all types, rapes, and even our method of sterilized warfare as unmanned drones drop smart bombs guided by a generation of video game enthusiasts. Okay, at least as far as I know, the USA does not carry out criminal state executions by beheading - plus one for the USA.

  For now though, let's put the atrocity list onto the Middle East where the sense of living a peaceful ordinary harmonious life is in all likelihood within a few hundred miles of severe change.

  Go back to the Bush 2 administration and the Iraq War. We are seeing a lot of recent squirming from the GOP on how to best express the run up to that failed war and it's failed aftermath. We have Jeb now making the claim that brother George was mislead into war through faulty info from intelligence agencies.. This is not true of course, the neocons in the Bush administration under the guiding hand of Cheney wanted this war real bad and 9-11 gave them the cover, excuse, and all the cooked 'intelligence' the best fantasy writer could ever invent.

  One meme that comes through over and over from the neocons is this sense of spreading American democracy. As no one in the Bush 2 administration has come forth with the real reason for going into Iraq, we can postulate that this neocon idea of an American Century, a spreading of Americanism throughout the world at this alleged opportune time was high on the probable list of reasons. Oil no doubt was there as well.

  But let's go back a second to the list of atrocities that appear frequently in the Middle East - the sexual torture, beheadings, etc etc, all these almost biblical based methods that are used at this present time. We have a Middle East culture of antiquity existing now with tribes and deep rooted hatreds and rivalries. People are executed for their religious beliefs, or non religious beliefs, sexual preference, sexuality, and often just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Now I can make my point. The Bush administration, Jeb, Rubio, the neocons, the GOP, all of them were and still remain clueless regarding this crazed notion that one could impose a new set of political values onto this region. Just take a look at how people treat each other in the Middle East with sexual torture, beheadings, and the rest of the atrocities. That is old school, real real old school, it's antiquity. The atrocities are just the tip of the iceberg in a culture that has even more antiquity in its total being, not just its atrocities. You can't change antiquity with quick regime change. The next GOP president is going to want to invade ISIS or Iran or Iraq again or all of it. Why?