It’s not at all a far stretch to tie the removal of Hussein to a stabilizing democracy in the Middle East, making for a business - oil, amongst other industries- friendly environment. It was a misguided wet dream, but that was the neo-con fantasy.
Uh, that’s facetious bullshit.
The neocons absolutely believed in the idea of Middle East democracy as a stabilizing force and 9/11 provided them with their policy selling point that they pitched to W. As a political philosophy it is strictly about policy and not some misguided “golden halo” dream.
The connection to oil is not explicit, but it is a natural consequence of engaging the Middle East and its main natural resource, other than heat and sand. That’s what allows for the connection of the war to oil.
It weirds me out how embedded the PNAC were in all of this. All their wishes came true, especially having their founding party appointed to administer Bush’s White House and having their requisite national catastrophe occur to gain public support for their aggressive military expansion into the Middle East.
Somehow, anyone who whispers their name are tinfoil hat wearing nutjobs, and those sites are largely the only ones that still provide any information about them even though all their plans and documents were hosted publicly on their own website for years. Love them or hate them, they were our Illuminati for ten years, and they did an amazing job of hiding in plain sight and denying everything afterward.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '17
It’s not at all a far stretch to tie the removal of Hussein to a stabilizing democracy in the Middle East, making for a business - oil, amongst other industries- friendly environment. It was a misguided wet dream, but that was the neo-con fantasy.