A new year... yesterday we were looking back, today, let's look ahead. A tricky exercise, nobody's got a crystal ball. Never mind, here goes...
Bush is going to get stuck ever more deeper in the Iraq quagmire. Sending in more combat troops. Bring 'em on George, the Iraqi resistance forces will be happy to have more targets. But you shouldn't be doing this, sacrificing American boys and girls because you don't want to confess you're wrong.
The big question is will they, or won't they, attack Iran? There is a fair chance the Bush-Blair-Olmert axis of evil will do it, fortified by the assistance of the Saudi monarchy. Everybody and his dog is predicting it will be disastrous and so it will be. Imperialism will bite off more than it can chew.
In China, the big event (prior to the Olympics, that is), will be the 17th party congress in October, where the course for the next 5 years will be charted. In the meantime, China will try to start filling up the gap between rich and poor and develop the countryside. And China will become stronger. Following Iraq and Iran, the ultimate target of the mad neocons is China, because they can never accept a peaceful giant rising in the East.
In 2007 also, “the tree may prefer calm, but the wind will not subside” (Mao)
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