Dune: Iraq: The "Them" Trap

I read hundreds of articles on http://informationclearinghouse.info/

Some articles there about Iraqi oil got me thinking of Dune, I wrote a comment that I think I might devlop on this blog - too lazy to come up with new stuff so here is the original comment:


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I would call it: Iraq the "them" trap. When Frank Herbert (rip) wrote Dune - he made one mistake (go with me), oil is not the Spice - oil is the bait.

Dune is based on 7th Iraq, when it removed both the Persian and Roman empires off their lands, ended the dark ages - Romans did not need excuses to invade anyone really, the oil/gold/wealth thing is just bait for those that need excudes.

It worked fine the last time, Rome and Persia are now back together in Iraq - round two, or is it round four? And what bait will get the Romans and Persian back after another 1,000 years?

My prohecy for the year 3012:

Millions of little "thems" gather to become thousands, to a hundred - then trap all those big "thems" in Iraq. Then you will have some peace on earth - till the next them trap starts.

Here is some anti-Spice to confuse things a bit further:

http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/ 200406180005

From the June 17 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:

O'REILLY: Because look ... when 2 percent of the population feels that you're doing them a favor, just forget it, you're not going to win. You're not going to win. And I don't have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all. I have no respect for them. I think that they're a prehistoric group that is -- yeah, there's excuses.

Sure, they're terrorized, they've never known freedom, all of that. There's excuses. I understand. But I don't have to respect them because you know when you have
Americans dying trying to you know institute some kind of democracy there, and 2 percent of the people appreciate it, you know, it's time to -- time to wise up.

And this teaches us a big lesson, that we cannot intervene in the Muslim world ever again. What we can do is bomb the living daylights out of them, just like we did in the Balkans. Just as we did in the Balkans. Bomb the living daylights out of them. But no more ground troops, no more hearts and minds, ain't going to work.

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They're just people who are primitive.