THIS MAP WAS DRAWN UP TO ACCOMPANY AN ARTICLE IN ARMED FORCES JOURNAL LAST SUMMER BY RALPH PETERS (LEADING NEOCON THEORIST):
Original article:
http://live.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899 Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look
By Ralph Peters
QUOTES:
International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.
The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa and the Middle East. Drawn by self-interested Europeans (who have had sufficient trouble defining their own frontiers), Africa's borders continue to provoke the deaths of millions of local inhabitants. But the unjust borders in the Middle East — to borrow from Churchill — generate more trouble than can be consumed locally.
(MEANING: WHICH IS WHY SELF-INTERESTED EUROPEAN-AMERICANS SHOULD NOW RE-DRAW THE MAP)
While the Middle East has far more problems than dysfunctional borders alone — from cultural stagnation through scandalous inequality to deadly religious extremism — the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region's comprehensive failure isn't Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats. (...)
Yet, for all the injustices the borders re-imagined here leave unaddressed, without such major boundary revisions, we shall never see a more peaceful Middle East.
(HOW DO BORDERS GET RE-DRAWN IN PRACTICE? DUH...)
(...) As for those who refuse to "think the unthinkable," declaring that boundaries must not change and that's that, it pays to remember that boundaries have never stopped changing through the centuries. Borders have never been static, and many frontiers, from Congo through Kosovo to the Caucasus, are changing even now (as ambassadors and special representatives avert their eyes to study the shine on their wingtips).
Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.
My favorite of the Peter Countries is the generic "Arab Shia State" that happens to incorporate all of the richest oil areas of both Iraq and Iran, and wraps around most of the Gulf Coast. And do I see an important future ally to the American interest in stability and democracy, blah blah?
This Peters -- who I think may qualify under international law, at least by the Nuremberg standard, as a planner of war crimes and genocide just on the basis of proposing this map to the military-industrial complex as a good idea -- he can't even come up with a name for it! That's how much he cares.
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The "Clean Break" document prepared by Perle and Co. in 1996. The PNAC plan for the Middle East, involving all of the top architects of the later Iraq invasion. Now Ralph Peters with the above map. They do not keep their idea secret: the ME should be broken up into new, smaller, more manageable states who are at war with each other. The US will attempt to manage this checkerboard, and make sure the units who control the most oil are peaceful and "friendly."
Never mind that this is hubris and it's not going to work. The heart of the matter is that this was always the plan.
The Iraqi "civil war" is the intended result of US policy in Iraq. It is what Cheney and Rumsfeld expected (barring the greeted-with-flowers scenario, which they understood was bullshit to sucker Americans).
The invasion,
the killing of untold thousands by bombing from the air,
the poisoning of the country with Depleted Uranium,
the destruction of Iraq’s energy and water infrastructure and the cultural treasures of Mesopotamia,
the torture of civilians and its media reception in Iraq, an outrageous affront to their identity and dignity,
the British and presumably American false-flag attacks,
the lies about foreign insurgents and the propaganda construct "Zarqawi",
the creation of death-squads in an Interior Ministry known to be little more than a haven of deputized Shi'a militias,
the arming of different factions by Saudi and Iranian backers...
all of this was expected, encouraged, and welcomed by the real US policy.
The idea was always to create a situation in which the Iraqi people kill each other, and then to pretend that "golly gee, we were incompetent and accidentally started a civil war among these crazy ethnic groups! But now we have to stay and make the best of it…."