stop dancing and fasten your seat belts

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Patrick J. Buchanan

On to Damascus?
Posted: April 9, 2003


Tony Blair has assured his countrymen the United
States does not intend to attack Syria or Iran. Colin
Powell has assured the Muslim world the United States
does not intend to attack Syria or Iran. 

But did the British prime minister or U.S. secretary
of state clear their statements with Richard Perle?
For the War Party has blood in its nostrils and is
headed for Damascus. 

Speaking at UCLA, for Americans for Victory over
Terrorism, a War Party front, ex-CIA Director James
Woolsey declared that this war is about far more than
the liberation of Iraq. We are fighting "World War
IV," said Woolsey, "a war that will last longer than
World Wars I or II." 

Our enemies are not just al-Qaida, but the religious
rulers of Iran and the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria.
"As we move toward a new Middle East," Woolsey added,
"we will make a lot of people very nervous." 

Who, exactly? Egypt and Saudi Arabia. 

"We want you nervous," said Woolsey to these two
erstwhile allies. "We want you to realize that now,
for the fourth time in 100 years, this country and its
allies are on the march and that we are on the side of
those whom you – the Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family
– most fear. We're on the side of your own people." 

"World War IV" is a term popularized by militant
Zionist Norman Podhoretz, who has been shrieking for
war on no fewer than six or seven Arab countries. But
why should anyone care what Woolsey says? 

Because James Woolsey is slated for a position of
power in the U.S. reconstruction of Iraq. Moreover,
Woolsey echoes John Bolton at State and Israel's Ariel
Sharon, who has also been howling for the United
States to take down Iran and Syria, as soon as Baghdad
falls. 

This is the neocons' hour of power, and they do not
intend to lose this chance to remake the Middle East
in their own image. Indeed, before the battle of
Baghdad had even begun, the battle over who will rule
Iraq was underway. [...] 

America stands on the threshold of military victory.
But the fear and loathing of America in the Islamic
world is on a scale none of us has ever known.
President Bush has an opportunity to alter this harsh
and hateful perception. If he will honor his
commitment to rebuild an Iraq ruined by dictatorship,
sanctions and war, if he will let the Iraqis choose
their own leaders, if he will bring American
occupation troops home at the earliest possible date,
he can give the lie to the myth that America seeks an
empire in the Islamic world. 

But he must first tell Woolsey, Perle & Co. that he,
not they, runs U.S. foreign policy. It is all up to
him. Republic or Empire. The president alone will decide

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