Its quirky and ironic, that the very oil which the outgoing Bush Presidency has repeatedly asserted was never part of his motivation for the invasion of Irak, should by near end of his administration become a life afflicting bite on America’s collective rump and economic well being. If a similar event had happened in ancient Israel’s history,  how would we interpret her failed policies and inaccurate informatives?

It is hilariously funny said the prophet Eliyahu, pointing to the failures of the gods and how they could not rise to the challenges of proof he had set.  So had pathetic is it in our day,  that the financial chaos and woes which Osama bnLaden had sought to promote by damaging our society through his vicious attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, how pathetic that his efforts have been disproportionally surpassed by the effects of the Bush Administration’s Iraki war propaganda ambitions.

Bush has done more than effectively dragged our economy and our future posture in the Middle East and our security at home to a more  darker and uncertain spiritual place than prior to his campagne on Irak. His objectives have most certainly begun a process of mobilisation  towards a forging  of a yet to surface confederacy of Arab States and consensus which will be set against the West, against Israel and against Russia but which will find it economically favorable to embrace the oil needs of the far east in her grab for modernization..

And so it is that after eight years of Bush Administration policies our Country now plunges into a malaise of deconstructive re-readings and definitions of his war sucesses, trying for patriotic consciousness’ sake to put a good face and promising future on its outcome politics, while pretending to not see any of the unresolved impacts which his policies have canoped over our heads.

Many note that our successes in Irak have left Israel, the US and Europe in a more tenuous state of alarm than if our war efforts had been concentrated on routing out the villains of Afghanistan. The talk is now of  returning in greater force to Afghanistan and by a surge of soldiers seek (as if once and for all), to stabilise the installed government which we deem favorable to our interests in the region.  And fighting and newer battles continue to escallate at times and then disapate… and we continue to further attempt a routing out of the many scattered burning embers of Taliban fighters. 

We say we want to withdraw from the region as the Afghan and Iraki stand up to their tasks of self governance and now Irak has asked that we leave sooner rather than later but yet there is one more demon in the region called Iran… It is one more demon which the Iron hand of the US political system must vanguish if our patriotic spirit is too survive in our eyes.

Shall we sustain the huge out-pouring of monies, which our Country now bleeds out? No we cannot continue tobe bleed in pursuit of our Afghan-Iraki commitments and we can no longer sit comfortably, self-assured in our Western economic zone of ease. The former ways of life in America have already been rudely modified and we stand uneasy at a pivotal point in our presence in the Middle East and at home.

There are those in Israel which love Bush and which believe that his support for Israel has been consistent and demonstrative of his bond of shared trust and ideals by our two countries but I suspect that our democratisation efforts for Afghanistan and Irak were nothing more than a heavily motivated response to a recognition that we should have alternative footholds and niches in the Middle East beyond our conradery with Israel.

If Bush’s efforts had proved successful then America would have been free to cultivate negotiations with other Middle Eastern States, in ways which the yoke of Israel would not have weighed our negotiations with the Arab states for oil and other interests. From a  less Israeli affiliated and more Arab associated investiture, pro-Western democratised influence would have been most advantages for us. That is a faded dream!

The US could then wean itself effectively of its unconditional support of Israel and without losing a foot hole in the Middle East, we would have gained a greater latitude amongst our oil rich Arab friends over that of the culling of the far east.

We know that in due course any and all of our interests in the oil that  powers our Country will become a more vital and driving force than it is currently. We know also that the future under the developing tri-furcation of political circumstances affecting the whole of the middle eastern Israel political scene will yield a cumbersome Israel, too heavy to deal with masterfully.  As it reads in the Scriptures:  

"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
And it will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples, all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it."  (Zechariah 12:2-3)

Bush’s oil politics have been nothing more in my opinion than a precursor to all the "End Time Politics," of which we read in the Scriptures.  His politics have set in motion events which neither McCain nor Obama can prevail against but which either one will aggravate . 

Eliahu bnZohar (looking at Europe America and the Arab Nations from the shadow of Western Wall).