Bush's Neocons Guilty of 'Unlimited Incompetence'
Francois Heisbourg / Le Monde
(June 4, 2004) -- Commentary: At no moment since the nuclear stand-offs of the Cold War has the world been so close to a planetary confrontation. The 9-11 terrorist act by an operational minority did not necessarily have to transform itself into a clash of civilizations. The Americans had to deploy a unique combination of narrow-minded activism and unlimited incompetence in Iraq to arouse the Arab world and beyond to a massive rejection. The American "Neo-Conservatives" bet on a positive domino theory; a democratized Iraq was supposed to open the path to reform of the Greater Middle East. Now the dominos are at risk of falling in the direction of a militant anti-Western fundamentalism.
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=84788:740526,1-0@2-3232,36-367440,0.html
(June 4, 2004) -- Commentary: At no moment since the nuclear stand-offs of the Cold War has the world been so close to a planetary confrontation. The 9-11 terrorist act by an operational minority did not necessarily have to transform itself into a clash of civilizations. The Americans had to deploy a unique combination of narrow-minded activism and unlimited incompetence in Iraq to arouse the Arab world and beyond to a massive rejection. The American "Neo-Conservatives" bet on a positive domino theory; a democratized Iraq was supposed to open the path to reform of the Greater Middle East. Now the dominos are at risk of falling in the direction of a militant anti-Western fundamentalism.
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=84788:740526,1-0@2-3232,36-367440,0.html
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