Reply #13: I agree with your comments

[teryang]

Somebody has to play the fool by default. It's always a safe bet to articulate everything on the basis of laissez faire/free market ideology as Bremer and his inexperienced and opportunistic flunkies did. This is the only permissable vocabulary. You can't call it conquest and colonialism.

It was always only a cover for a plan to conquer a nation not rebuild one. This is where the alleged naivete of theological school operatives comes in. Any "rebuilt" and "sovereign" nation to re-emerge in Iraq will be antithetical to this group's leadership goals. Colonialism has nothing to do with free markets or sovereignty. Some professional like Garner with a substantive plan to restore order isn't ever going to last in this situation, he might actually succeed in some respect, reconstituting indigenous power and eliminating opportunites for exploitation of a prostrate victim.

Klein's piece is excellent. There is a lot of detailed factual information and analysis there that I hadn't seen before. Thanks again.