| I would agree with Scribbler that the goals are rooted in material objectives because the war on Iraq was too long in the planning with special interest contracts for oil companies that transparently have close ties with the people in the White House. They no doubt had bad information or missguided hopes that it would be a peice of cake and so they did not fully expect the developing insurgency aspects. But it was clearly a busness deal from the get-go.
But to mastermind such a project they could not tell the public "hey, can we use your military to make a profit for our company". So they had to frame it in some kind of idealistic terminolgy to sell it to Americans who were not part of the loop when it came to cashing in on the project. What this reporter in the linkpage found out is that their attempt at making the war sound like the right thing to do was poorly constructed with some pretty far out fantasy aspects that might be too utopian in nature. The whole bilical sounding aspects included in thier speeches as part of their public relations promotional was rather overstated for the ears of skeptical people who are better balanced with logical understandings.
So I agree with both points. Yes, it was just a busness deal and yes, they attempted to sell the idea with a "fantastic" story and with a dream of a better world that only the ghost of nightmares could have inspired.
Now they will pass as perminate the massive tax refunds for the wealhty and eveyone is gung-ho for it because they will toss smaller crumbs to the middle class under the pretence this will save the couuntry and our economic stalemate, due to outsourcing as our jobs sink into the quicksands of corperate management.
Technosoul. |