The U.S. in Iraq - "a Dante-like descent into the nine circles of hell"

(from robert parry at consortium news...)

The deeply troubling prospect is this: If Washington follows the “kill, kill, kill” strategy in what Bush’s neoconservative advisers like to call the “clash of civilizations,” the United States will lose.

America will bleed itself dry of available troops; it will spend itself into bankruptcy; it will transform itself into a grotesque caricature of what the United States once was. It will strip its citizens of their constitutional rights; it will imprison suspected “terrorists” and “sympathizers” without trial; it will spread death and destruction around the globe.

Yet even after sacrificing the very freedoms and respect for human rights that Bush claims are despised by al-Qaeda terrorists, the deformed United States will still lose the war. Bush’s strategy of “kill, kill, kill” will even accelerate the process, much as the Iraq War ignited more Islamic militancy.

Bush is leading the American people into a chasm of almost unbelievable depth, a Dante-like descent into the nine circles of hell. There are literally no issues more pressing than forcing the U.S. government to rethink this course of action, because it will make addressing all other pressing issues – such as global warming, budget deficits, the economy, health care, etc. – impossible.

as difficult and as painful as it is to do so, we, as a nation, MUST begin to accept the fact that bush and his criminal minions have worked diligently to create precisely these conditions, the conditions to create and fuel an endless war, a war that will bring about the global clash of civilizations so eagerly awaited by neo-con and religious extremist alike...

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