{"id":44141,"date":"2019-03-02T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44141"},"modified":"2019-03-02T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:10:07","slug":"dollar-hegemony-again%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44141","title":{"rendered":"Dollar Hegemony, Again\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/01\/dollar-hegemony-again\/\">Dollar Hegemony, Again<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States Entity lost the war in Iraq. That fact determines the Entity\u2019s position in the Middle East today. After having destroyed Saddam\u2019s army and dispossessing the Sunnis in favor of the Shi\u2019ites, after Abu Ghraib and it\u2019s indelible pictures, after the total destruction of Fallujah, in short after a victory achieved with the utmost brutality, contempt and humiliation of Iraq and Iraqis, the Entity was in charge. Then the \u201cinsurgents\u201d appeared. They put improvised explosive devices along the roads so, with a phone call, they could destroy patrols of the Entity. They made car bombs so that every vehicle approaching a check-point might spell doom. They donned suicide vests to blow themselves and any nearby Entity soldiers up. Entity soldiers couldn\u2019t go into the streets. Every move they made could be their last. The enemy was everywhere and nowhere. These people would rather die then be ruled by these idiotic mechanized barbarians. Everything seemed peaceful, but at any moment, out of nowhere, they could be blown to pieces. That kind of thing wears on you. Their patrols, pointless bouts of Russian roulette, ended up as parked&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/refusing-comply\/\">\u201csearch and avoid\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;missions. Life went on without the clanking monsters. Entity bases were like Kaposi sarcoma in AIDS patients. The Entity\u2019s attempts at reconstruction were comically inept \u2013 roads to nowhere and chicken processing plants for chickens no one wanted. In short the Entity\u2019s occupation of Iraq after the victory, other than being a disaster of comical incompetence, was non-existent. Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shi\u2019ite cleric, had much more power than the Entity. Eventually Iraq&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/oct\/21\/iraq-rejects-us-plea-bases\">rejected<\/a>&nbsp;the Entity\u2019s status of forces agreement (SOFA). In other words the Iraqi puppets the Entity had installed unceremoniously kicked the Entity out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar Hegemony, Again The United States Entity lost the war in Iraq. That fact determines the Entity\u2019s position in the Middle East today. After having destroyed Saddam\u2019s army and dispossessing the Sunnis in favor of the Shi\u2019ites, after Abu Ghraib and it\u2019s indelible pictures, after the total destruction of Fallujah, in short after a victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[5493,442,24090,522,827,862],"class_list":["post-44141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-iraq","tag-michael-doliner","tag-middle-east","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44142,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44141\/revisions\/44142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}