Rhag ofn bod gan rywun ddiddordeb, dyma farn y Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, gynt o'r USAF, fu'n gweithio yn swyddfa NESA (Near East and South Asia) y Pentagon tan ei hymddeoliad yn y gwanwyn y llynedd, ynghylch y rhesymau dros ymosod ar Irac:
Karen Kwiatkowski a ddywedodd:But it is clear that they [golygyddion prif bapurau newyddion yr Unol Daleithiau] either honestly don't know or perversely refuse to recognize the one fundamental reason why we have had over 135,000 American troops under deadly fire for the past year in Iraq.
Here's a hint: It isn't liberation, democracy, counter-terrorism, a search for weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian concerns, or even oil or Israel's security interests. It is simple geo-strategic military positioning, a classic Cold War model, aimed at punishing future enemies and rewarding allies by leveraging regional oil flow, water allocations, and weapons development.
Karen Kwiatkowski a ddywedodd:These are the types of choices that originate from an honest assessment of why we are in Iraq in the first place: military geo-strategic positioning, with a side of economic welfare for a few fat cat American companies. The neoconservative pipe dream of the reformation of Islam, and a stirring of the democratic heart of the Middle East is, as it always was, delusional window dressing.
Os ydi rhywun am ddarllen yr erthygl ('An Honest Appraisal, and the Way Ahead') yn llawn, mae hi ar gael ar safle
Military Week.
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the Horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into Shadow.