From the "I Told You So" Files

A bumper-sticker I made pre-election (not to mention a wager with a friend):

VOTE FOR BUSH - SEND YOUR KIDS TO IRAN

People thought I was nuts...but read any of the background information on the neoconservative world-view, like Gary Dorrien's “Benevolent Global Hegemony”: William Kristol and the Politics of American Empire (and Rumsfield, Cheney and Rice are all neocons) and it's there in black and white. Invade Iraq, Iran, then Syria. Control middle-east oil, bolster Israel, spread American hegemony through perpetual war. That's why the catch-phrase "War on Terror" is such a useful tool for this administration. Terror is an idea, not a place, hence a war against it can be waged everywhere.

And don't think this is just conspiracy-theory left-wing nuttiness. Read commentary from the right's own voice. Try this post from co-editor of The American Conservative, Justin Raimondo, at the UK site War Without End: Buchanan's Book on the Neocons at Drudge Report.

Regarding Bush's idea '...that we must "drain the swamp" of the Middle East and eradicate terrorism by implanting our conception of "democracy,"' Justin quotes Pat Buchanan:

"How would we have responded in the nineteenth century if Britain had invaded and occupied Washington until President Andrew Jackson abolished slavery and stopped his mistreatment of the Indians?"

and (regarding the direction of US foreign policy):

"An American version of the Brezhnev Doctrine, wherein Moscow asserted a right to intervene to save Communism in any nation where it had once been imposed. Only we Americans now assert a right to intervene anywhere to impose democracy."

Any questions?