The coming defeat of Britain and the USA in Iraq

The coming defeat of Britain and the USA in Iraq will reshape the geopolitical landscape of the world. Their defeat will be far more humiliating than America’s defeat in Vietnam. It will lead to the total collapse of the American Empire – both economically and military.
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Subject: WHAT TO FOLLOW DEFEAT IN IRAQ?
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 14:46:38 +1200
From: Bruce Porteous bruceport@xtra.co.nz

How US Middle East policies are leading USA and Britain to disaster?

Many months prior to the US invasion of Iraq I wrote how the invasion of Iraq would lead to the military defeat and economic collapse of the USA. Now over two years since the invasion I thought it would be timely to do an update article on the current situation in the Middle East, and what the coming defeat of America and Britain will mean to the world.

The US-lead coalition in Afghanistan has failed to achieve its goals to kill to capture Osama bin Laden and destroy al-Qaeda and the Taleban. While the Taleban Government was successfully overthrown, Mohammed Omar and many of the Taleban leadership have evaded capture, have regrouped and are increasing their attacks against the Kabul Government and the coalition forces required to keep them in office. The failure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and destroy al-Qaeda has highlighted the limitations of American military might in defeating a determined enemy and achieve its objectives. To cap it all off, the grateful Afghans are now demonstrating in the streets against the USA.

The American occupation of Iraq has now evolved into a similar quagmire to what the USA found itself in Vietnam, with the eventual outcome being the same. The coming defeat and forced withdrawal from Iraq will be far more humiliating, and have far more serious consequences than America’s defeat in Vietnam.

While the invasion of Iraq was successful in over-throwing Saddam, it has also upset the balance of power in the Middle East, and created a cause for al-Qaeda to unify the Muslim fundamentalist groups in their fight against the USA. The invasion of Iraq has failed to defeat the previous governing Baathist Party, or force the Iraqi army to surrender. Strategically the war has been a disaster for the USA. Not only has the illegal invasion destroyed confidence in American leadership around the world, it has resulted in Britain and America becoming isolated as they have become bogged down in an endless war of attrition against an determined Iraqi resistance, supported by al-Qaeda, with no victory in sight.

What is not understood by the general public is the seriousness of the current situation, and what the consequences of the coming defeat of Britain and America in Iraq will be. Both the USA and Britain are now a no-win situation. If they withdraw from Iraq, they loose control of the Persian Gulf and its oil. Yet by remaining in Iraq the situation only becomes worse, as they become ever deeper bogged down in the quagmire in the war against the Iraqi resistance.

Meanwhile, the region’s geopolitical situation continues to deteriorate. The temporary Shiite-dominated Iraqi Government, backed by Iran, would like to see Iraq become a theocracy modelled along the lines of Iran. The Iraqi Sunnis and al-Qaeda, backed by their friends abroad (Saudi Arabia, Jordon and Syria), are increasing their supply in weapons and finance in support of the resistance. The Kurds continue to assert their independence, making it difficult for the Iraqi Government to exercise any real control over their region.

The Bush administration has made much about introducing democracy in Iraq; the reality is that the invasion has been a disaster for the Iraqi people and America’s strategic interests in the region. The recently elected Iraqi government is dominated by the pro-Iranian Shiites who have little love towards America, but need American military support to remain in power. The real threat to America’s Middle East strategic interests has always been Iran, whom has always been a greater threat to the security of the USA and Israel than Saddam ever was.

The over-throw of Saddam has strengthened Iran’s position, now having their Shiite friends in control of the Iraqi Government. It may force America to try and neutralise the Iranian influence by invading Iran, under the pretence of destroying Iran’s nuclear threat, rather than allow Iran to gain control of Iraq. Yet the USA and Britain do not have the military man-power to undertake an invasion of Iran, and if they did so, would find themselves fighting an under-resourced war on two fronts – against the Sunnis and al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the Shiites in Iran. It would result in America and Britain becoming immersed in an even greater mess than they already are.

Where to now? What will follow the defeat of America and Britain in Iraq?

The coming defeat of Britain and the USA in Iraq will reshape the geopolitical landscape of the world. Their defeat will be far more humiliating than America’s defeat in Vietnam. It will lead to the total collapse of the American Empire – both economically and military.

The continual financial drain on America and British resources required to maintain their occupying armies in Iraq has become increasingly difficult politically to justify to a sceptical public in supporting the war. Already the war has cost over 300 billion dollars, with little to show for it, and no let up on the demand on military and financial resources required to go on fighting. To date the war, which was originally going to cost only 30 billion dollars, has been financed by borrowing, escalating America’s debt.

Yet withdrawing the troops will be an even greater disaster. It would be a victory for al-Qaeda and Muslim fundamentalists, strengthening their support and influence throughout the Muslim world. Whoever gained control of Iraq would then be in a strategic position to invade Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States, and the supply of Middle East oil. They would gain control of the Persian Gulf, and its shipping lanes. The invasion of Iraq has provided a front on al-Qaeda’s door-step to suck America into a quagmire where they can gradually wear them down through a war of attrition.

Without control over the supply of Middle East oil, America’s dominant influence of the global economy would collapse. It would result in a run and collapse of the dollar and pound, followed by the total collapse of the debt-ridden US and British economies.

There will be little sympathy from the rest of the world for America’s defeat in Iraq. Most nations have become tired of American arrogance and hypocrisy – it preaching to the world how other nations conduct their affairs, while it flouts international law. Increasingly, the rest of the world is withdrawing its limited support to the American occupation of Iraq.

Few actually comprehend that America will be defeated, and what is to follow.

The collapse of the United States will have dire consequences to the Asian economies, which have expanded rapidly through debt financing, exports to the USA, and their sizable investments in the US economy. While their economies will be severely hurt, it will not be fatal as that of the USA and Britain, and will eventually recover. Political turmoil will follow economic turmoil. Britain and America will be blamed for the economic chaos the world will be thrown into, as a result of their reckless spending, warmongering and extravagant lifestyles.

The Anglo-Saxon nations will quickly slide into total anarchy. Their money will be worthless, their economies in total collapse, and their people living in abject poverty. Starvation will be wide-spread. Disease will become rampant. There will be a total break-down in law and order. There military defence will cease.

The people of Britain and America have been greatly blessed for the last 200 years. These blessings were given to them by God, not as a result of their physical or intellectual abilities. These blessings are now being replaced by curses for rejecting God and His Laws. Yet the Anglo-Saxon nations are oblivious to the disaster that lies ahead. There economies appear to be booming, financed on borrowed money from Asia and cheap credit. This artificially created prosperity will eventually evaporate into thin air, leaving our people destitute.

The military and economic defeat of America and Britain will result in a shift in the global balance of power. No longer will the Anglo-Saxon nations dominate the world as they have for the last 200 years. In place will emerge new power blocs in Asia and Europe? The collapse of the US will produce a period of great economic turmoil, and depression. Europe will emerge as the most powerful global economic power bloc, under the newly federated, Germanic-dominated United States of Europe, made up of those nations that accept the new European constitution.

The new United States of Europe will establish a new world order, and rebuild the global economy on a new economic model. This new Super-State will impose new social and economic order, with enforced environmental standards, and controls on how the global economy is managed. It will impose new moral standards and values, in co-operation with a Catholic Church whose goal is to bring unity and order to the world. This new power bloc will restore order out of chaos, but subject those who reject its authority to slavery.

Bruce Porteous
14/05/05
bruceport@xtra.co.nz

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