The Darkest Times Lay Ahead

There is one small obstacle in the US pursuit of a Central Asian hegemony, that being the American public itself.

Republics are not good support foreign wars of aggression, even though republics have the strongest possible economy to support these wars. The only way the US can complete a hegemony is with the consent of its population. This is starting to erode.

Whether by accident or design, the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave the US government the political standpoint from which Americans allowed them to invade a sovereign nation that presented no threat to us, Iraq.

Afghanistan was far less controversial due to the Taliban / Al Quaida / UBL connections.

The US is not going to pull out of the Middle East. The next target is Iran, but already there is flagging support for US efforts in Iraq. Whether Iraq was sold to our nation's leaders as an easy kill, or whether they sold that line to the US public, Iraq is not an easy kill. The country is undergoing a full-blown anarchic insurgency with US troops confined to small areas of control and reduced to armored-up patrols. 97% of Iraq is in the hands of the rebellion.

The Iraq rebellion has to be crushed before Iran can be conquered. This will require the annihilation of the majority of the population. The only way the US leaders can get the public backing to turn the US military into a genocidal machine and invade Iran is another Pearl Harbor - 9/11 type event.

This can only come in the form of a massive, irrefutable attack on US forces in the Gulf, combined with another massive domestic terror incident, perhaps similar to the incident in Ossetia.

The darkest times in the War on Terra lie ahead.

It may be true that the U.S. needs to potray to its citizens a significantly decreased Iraqi insurgency before heading off to battle the next target in the "War on Terror" in the mideast region. However, the majority of the Iraqi population are not insurgents.

Originally posted by atentaten
It may be true that the U.S. needs to potray to its citizens a significantly decreased Iraqi insurgency before heading off to battle the next target in the "War on Terror" in the mideast region. However, the majority of the Iraqi population are not insurgents.

They don't have to portray anything. In a war without territory or boundaries, where you have massive air superiority and the world's best troops, you can beat down an insurgency forever. The Iraqi / US kill ratio is in the league of 30:1. What is needed is a country stable so that you can divert your forces elsewhere.

America always kills more enemies but the people at home don't have the stomach for real death. Taibunsuu you think 97% of Iraq is held by the insurgents because 97% of all the "NEWS" that CNN tells about of Iraq is about the insurgency.

Originally posted by verfed
America always kills more enemies but the people at home don't have the stomach for real death. Taibunsuu you think 97% of Iraq is held by the insurgents because 97% of all the "NEWS" that CNN tells about of Iraq is about the insurgency.

I haven't watched CNN or any other cable news in about 10 years.

97% of Iraq is the amount not covered by the Green Zone or the US firebases from which the troops are operating.