printThe following is from this week’s column, “Onward to Iran!”:
That acts of war and elections often coincide should come as no surprise. It’s unfortunate, but electability in fin de siècle America still hinges on projecting bully power around the world—an American leader has to aspire to “protect” borders and people not his own, and if they refuse his advances, he should be prepared to bomb them to kingdom come.
Having used the American military to particularly great political effect—the barefaced Barack Obama may be preparing to blast Iranians with something even “better” than the BLU-82, Bush’s weapon of choice.
Elections are not the only cause for war.
Perverse as this may seem, in its ongoing, reflexive efforts to maintain power and metastasize, the media-military-industrial-congressional complex can’t help but motivate for war.
Thus, out of the blue, in January of 2012, before things had heated up with Teheran, the Anglo-American press reported a military milepost. The Pentagon was working on a “13.6 ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).” It “is the deepest penetrating ‘bunker buster’ currently in the U.S. arsenal,” swanked the DailyMail Online, “designed to take out fortifications built by Iran to hide their alleged nuclear weapons.”
Correlation is not causation, but the case for hitting Iranian installations has since hardened into dogma.
According to the MailOnline, the work on this big boy began because the Pentagon had “identified” a deficit in the US’s military capabilities: “officials believe [the current arsenal] is not capable of destroying Iran’s fortified underground facilities.”
Essentially, the premise for the MOP project was that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching all corners of the world.
Since the president’s reign of terror abroad began, the Iranian currency had lost 65 percent of its value. Or so boasted Fareed Zakaria, CNN’s inane, wishy-washy correspondent, who represents the media’s voice of moderation in the ramp-up to war with Iran.
Like all fixtures of mainstream media, the Zombie Zakaria has an appetite for destruction. …”
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We are not fighting a war on terror. We are posturing. Badly. The Obama administration steadily cuts and undermines the military while finding ever more places to invade and bomb. I think Denmark is our next target.
OK – lets drop some Mother Of all Projectiles – now we mess up Iran and the Iranian Kurds want to join the Iraqi, Turkish, and Syrian Kurds … and the Azeris want to hook with Azerbejan … and maybe Iranians start a mass slaughter of Iran’s Jewish population bringing Israel into the mess [Not far fetch, El Segundo. Since you are away from home and not bogged-down by teen-minding, use your considerable research skills to look up and tell us what has become of the Iraqi Jews, once safe under Saddam] … and the Baluchi population that borders Pakistan wants autonomy … and that spreads next door to Pakistan that REALLY HAS NUKES … – yes this is all so well thought up. And in 2025, we will be still “training” the friendly Iranians who seem to shoot on occasion at us …
As E. E. Cummings once said “listen, there’s a hell of a good Universe next door, let’s go”
All those who want Regime Change in America should welcome the IranWar, through which a desperate Israel will attempt to dispose of both Iran and the foot-dragging Obama…and enable the election of neo-con stooge Romney. Today Netanyahu got a Cabinet majority for an attack on Iran at any time, and 4 more American minesweepers are headed for the Persian Gulf. But this war – probably to begin c. Julu-August – will also spike and hold oil at >$200/barrel for months (c. $10/gal at the pumps), spark a global run on the dollar and its removal as reserve currency, and lead to hyperinflation and PonziCollapse in America. Soon to be followed by Martial Law and Civil War. This is how Empires die. Prepare accordingly.
Ilana – actually, Iraq’s Jews got the boot around 1948 – 1951 by the friendly pro-British monarchy (they were better off when the Ottoman Turks ran the place and Baghdad was 35% Jewish 100 year ago – so much for “refugees”!!).
It was the remaining Iraqi CHRISTIANS that have been decimated since the US-led coalition “liberated” Iraq. Ethnic cleansing, 4 million internal refugees, 2 million exiles living in slums throughout the Arab world… – all legacies of Bush’s liberation.
I don’t think we can predict the exact nature of the multi-nation, multi-ethnic, multi-year catastophes that will occur after we bomb and/or occupy Iran – but some hideous mess is likely to occur.