“Obvious bullshit, and not secret lies, rules the world.” Writer Viktor Pelevin said something to this affect, summing up today’s geopolitical situation perfectly. Why did Bush get involved with Iraq? Conspiracy theorists can’t stop trying to find some kind of satanic plot for American hegemony, transnational corporate intrigue, global Jewish conspiracy, and lord knows what else behind this decision. However, the occupation of Iraq has only made things worse for all those mentioned above. Perhaps a few individual companies have managed to benefit a bit, but in general the results have been terrible.
What about challenges to unite the American people? There are really none to speak of. No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. Nonetheless, suddenly last week Bush again begun to suggest that “they could still be there. On some turkey farm, 50 tons of mustard gas could be hidden.” Where did these turkeys come from? It seems Bush has once again confused Texas and .
Washington stated that it intended to overthrow the cruel and inhumane regime of Saddam Hussein, free the Iraqi people, and prove that the Western principles of democracy were universal and even applied to the Islamic world. The example of post-war Japan was brought up on many occasions. Not any more. A year after the glorious victory, even the authors of the Iraq project have come to realize that these principles are not universal and that the attempt to introduce them by force is giving rise to chaos. And after the cluster bombing of Falluja, the Americans have even lost the moral right to call anyone inhumane.
The only goal that could somewhat justify punitive military operations on this scale would be the reduction of the risk of global terrorism. Though, of course, in that case it would be better not to sputter all this stuff about democracy or humanitarian goals. After Bush became president, he immediately demanded that aides come up with a global and all-encompassing plan to combat Islamic terrorism and first and foremost Al-Qaeda. “I’m tired of swatting at flies,” national security advisor Condaleezza Rice quoted Bush as saying before the bipartisan commission to investigate September 11 (even though he hadn’t even picked up the flyswatter at that point). After the tragic events, Bush talked about draining the swamp of terrorism and ordered the Secret Service to find him materials linking Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
This defies logical explanation. Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian regime never worked with and by definition couldn’t work with Al-Qaeda. It never permitted any terrorists on its territory. Saddam Hussein was the sworn enemy of Bin Laden, and American secret service agents, who had worked closely with bin Laden for a long time, knew this better than anyone else.
Here, it seems, the Oedipus complex was unavoidable. The moment George Bush came to power, he knew very little about the world around him and often confused countries with continents. He only knew a couple things about Iraq because that’s where his daddy went to war. Sons frequently want to defeat their fathers and overcome their mundane experience. Bush Senior foresaw the consequences of occupying a multiethnic, religiously diverse, and culturally very different country and didn’t try it. However, the system of sanctions, inspections, forbidden zones, and air corridors he helped establish guaranteed the world community’s safety by reducing Baghdad’s military might to zero, as demonstrated by the brevity of last year’s war.
Bush Junior messed everything up. Instead of draining the terrorist swamp, he has created a huge new swamp, in which the American army and its frightened allies are now floundering. The world antiterrorism coalition is crumbling before our very eyes. The powers opposing it have gotten new inspiration and new reasons to fight. They will be much more difficult to combat now.

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