I never said that, nor do I believe that they are the sole 'players' in a race to the bottom of the 'cultural and ethical sink'.
I simply posted part of an editorial from the NYT by Leslie Gelb,
president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who asserted:
> “For decades, the United States has worshipped at the altar of a
> unified Iraqi state. Allowing all three communities within that false
> state to emerge at least as self-governing regions would be both
> difficult and dangerous. Washington would have to be very hard-headed
> and hard-hearted, to engineer this breakup. But such a course is
> manageable, even necessary, because it would allow us to find Iraq’s
> future in its denied but natural past.”
The CFR is assuredly more balanced in it's worldview than the neocon element
of American policy advisors, but their overweening interest is still
linked inexorably
to American hegemony, and the obviously untenable belief that American
interests
are the only interests...
That's not delusional, Nor am I. I just have few vested interests that reside in maintaining the "American lifestyle", or the propaganda machine that keeps it together like a house of cards in the path of a tornado.
The tornado is oil, and how it's quickly (perhaps already) moved from a commodity to a source of world wide conflict. The other natural resources of the world will follow suit shortly.
Leigh www.leighm.net http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/