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By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
What have been the reasons of the Iraq conflict? Who have been the most gamers? How used to be the struggle offered to the choice makers? regardless of all that has been written at the Iraq struggle the myriad scholarly, journalistic and polemical works the solutions to those questions stay shrouded in an ideological mist. the line to Iraq is an empirical research that dispels this fog. become aware of how a small yet ideologically coherent and socially cohesive staff of decided political brokers used the contingency of 9-11 to weigh down a sceptical overseas coverage institution, army brass and intelligence gear.
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Weren’t the first locations that the US and UK forces seized during the invasion Iraq’s oil installations? Didn’t the US spare troops after the fall of Baghdad to protect the oil ministry even as Iraq’s ancient heritage was plundered unimpeded? Haven’t oil companies made record profits in the years since the invasion? For all its prima facie plausibility, the ‘war for oil’ thesis is selective in fact and speculative in argument. Its two mutually contradictory claims collapse on closer reading. The more pedestrian version of the thesis – that Iraq was invaded to maximise profits for US energy corporations – ignores the fact 19 The Road to Iraq that these companies were being held back not by Saddam Hussein but by US-imposed sanctions.
3 If the neoconservatives were able to successfully appropriate the resources of state and instrumentalise its authority in the lead-up to the war, it was because their power was undergirded by institutional support, ideological momentum and historical contingency. Chief among the institutional forces were the corporate rich, the MIC and the Israel lobby; ideologically, they were aided by the Cold War and the ‘war on terror’; and historically, they rode the waves of a new militarised humanitarianism.
47 Tradition, religion and deference to authority would henceforth shield against ‘the moral permissiveness’ of the increasingly ungovernable individualist society. 49 The neoconservatives had emerged as the intellectual strata of big business, but none among its core were economists. . 51 46 Origins and Interests His son, William Kristol, echoes the same sentiment. He told the BBC: ‘I’m much more interested in liberty and democracy than I am in capitalism. . social democracy is fine. It’s about freedom and democracy.