Chris Floyd on the War Machine

Chris Floyd as usual is right on regarding American foreign policy in the Middle East. In his latest piece he writes about the Obama plan to surge/escalate in Afghanistan. The whole article is good but the part that struck me was his succinct description of the underlying rationale for such insane policies:

Indeed, the entire arc of America's bipartisan policies in the region over the past 40 years can be seen as the elaborate construction of a gargantuan, self-propelled blowback machine, producing an endless effluent of violence, threat, chaos and crime that is now sluicing through the entire world. But blowback, as we all know, is not a design flaw of imperial policy, at least not for the most part; it is a design feature. No War Machine without perpetual war and rumors of war; no war profits – and no war powers – without the War Machine.