Disabling Web of Deceit

One of the biggest differences between the Clinton presidency and our 8 year nightmare under Bush was the former president's knack for thinking strategically. The Great Game, otherwise known as the global proxy oil wars between the "East" and "West" has been likened to a chess match. Thanks to Bush and Cheney's thickheaded neocons and their fateful lust to grab that last tempting piece (Iraq) the U.S. has been left with strategic weaknesses all across the board. Not only are its pawns no longer solidly connected its once powerful pieces, having been foolishly placed, are now vulnerable and rapidly waning in strength.

For instance Cheney and McCain's greedy blundering has finally cost us one of our strategic allies in the Caucasus. Clinton had plotted a clever role for the energy-poor republic. Georgia was to become part of an "energy corridor" for the export of Caspian basin oil and gas to the West, bypassing Russia altogether. It would start with an "early-oil" pipeline built to carry petroleum from Azerbaijan's energy fields on the Caspian Sea to Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea coast. This would be followed by the tactical construction of a 1,000-mile BTC pipeline from Baku to Tbilisi then on to Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

But with the typical short-sightedness that guides Bush and the neocons instead of telling Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili, (as Condi Rice supposedly advised) to chill his boots and be satisfied playing his role as pipeline guardian, they backed his crazy fantasies. By trying to retake breakaway regions of Abhkazia and South Ossetia Saakashvili and the neocons handed Putin the opening for a counterattack he craved ever since taking over from Russia's former big man and blunderer-in-chief, Boris Yeltsin.

Unfortunately as recent revelations about Jane Harman's incestuous ties to the neocon cabal have made painfully clear, the warmongering parasites that continue to profit from U.S. foreign policy have their grasping tentacles in every branch and party in Washington.