US strategists
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, New Delhi
It is no secret that the Neo-cons in Washington have grown restless over the Bush administration's delay in invading Iran and create an explosive situation in the Middle East owing to Teheran's insistence on developing nuclear facility that could be used for producing both electricity and nuclear weapons. They believe the nuclear regime if established in Iran could be dangerous not only to the Arab world and Israel, but also a permanent threat to the US as well. They wonder if the uni-polar drive by the US is getting into deeper trouble somewhere. The fact that the strategies of the CIA and Pentagon have been kept a highly guarded secret even from the neo-cons is indeed astonishing! The US strategists are also annoyed that the US is not "containing" China's support for Iraq's independence. They feel outrageous that the US has not collected Iraq's (Saddam Hussian's) debts. The US believes that by supplying weapons to Iraqi fighters, China is garnering a share of post-liberation Iraq's oil. In mid-2003, some of them prepared a briefing circular that warned of the dangerous consequences to US national security of leaving Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era debt owed to the Communist Chinese government outstanding. A copy of the brief was provided to both Karl Rove and Ms Rice, who then was the president's national security adviser, and in it we predicted the eventuality of China's gaining access to Iraq's national petroleum reserves through a negotiated debt-cancellation scheme. The strategists only are worried about the US invaders in Iraq but not about the Iraqis who are being killed en-masse in their country.
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