This they thought, would have brought some stability to the Middle East, serve as a warning to other rogue states not to step out of line, and create a military base right in the centre of things. Unfortunately, it’s not turned out this well. Iraq must be delighted that the coalition has removed its main enemy, Hussain, and installed a Shi’ite government.
Iran and the many terrorist groups in the Middle East, while hating each other, will work towards removing all Western troops from Iraq and then the entire region. The day that the last troops pull out is the day we should fill every available tank or can with fuel and start stocking up on food.
War could quickly break out between Shi’ite and Sunny, Arab and Israeli and Al-quida and the House of Saud. For many, the destruction of the oil infrastructure to deny the West oil would be a major aim.
With the West increasingly dependent on imported oil to operate, shortages could lead to a collapse of the economic system and failure of food production.
George Bush and Tony Blair have long been aware of how disastrous it would be if oil slows or stops from the Middle East and were did what they thought was right to protect their own people.
In retrospect, a better policy would have been to introduce drastic fuel saving legislation to make us less dependent on the Middle East, but such measures would have been less popular with the electorate then a successful war.
