printMore war is on its way—and sooner than you think.
For the last week or so, the president’s most loyal lap dogs—America’s brain-dead broadcasters—have been beating the drum for an urgent need, identified by- and acted on by the Pentagon: “to develop its largest bomb because officials believe [the current arsenal] is not capable of destroying Iran’s fortified underground facilities.”
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 is preparing to blast Iranians with something even “better” than the BLU-82.
This flaccid, coward of a politician is intent on shoring up his commander-in-chief credentials so as to seduce a militarist America for the second time. The Pentagon, under the president who has perfected the art of state assassination, is working on a “13.6 ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).” It “is the deepest penetrating ‘bunker buster’ currently in the U.S. arsenal, designed to take out fortifications built by Iran to hide their alleged nuclear weapons. (Via The DailyMail Online.)
UPDATE (Feb. 1): “Spy Chief Sees Iran Threats in U.S”:
The U.S., “spy chief James Clapper” “has concluded that some Iranian officials, probably including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ‘are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States as a response to real or perceived actions that threaten the regime,’ according to an assessment provided by Mr. Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence.”
Clapper’s claptrap evidence is here, detailed in my “Is A-Jad (Ahmadinejad) The Fall Guy For The AG (Attorney General)?”
[It’s]…the kind of cloak-and-dagger that belongs in an episode of “The Unit,” not in the courts of a civilized country. To entrap the two defendants, Mansour Arbabsiar and Ali Gholam Shakuri, assistant US attorneys relied on Title 18 of the United States Code. Sections in this “versatile” law were used to ensnare domestic diva Martha Stewart (for fibbing to the Feds about a recipe, not for insider trading).
Obama is power-mad, as are the neocons beating the war drums.
When the continuation of power trumps avoiding the obliteration of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians, you know you’re dealing with a sociopath.
Obama has no morals, no integrity, no soul. I give you the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize!
In all fairness, Obama has been for some time under extreme pressure to attack Iran. And not only from pro-Zionist neo-cons. It’s that petrodollar thing again: if/when the dollar loses global reserve currency status, the domestic US dollar and with it the entire American debt-ponzi economy will quickly collapse. Iraq tried to go of the dollar, and got smashed; ditto Libya. And now Iran is making bilateral local currency and gold-for-oil deals with Russia, India, China. This is serious stuff, not just a matter of one politician. But being as this is a consummate politician, I’d guesstimate that (perhaps preceeded by a nudge from Israel) he’ll do the deed around about September. What then ensues, I don’t even want to think about. Just looked at an IranWar article & thread over at Commentary, incidentally: those neo-cons are quite mad, talking Samson Option.
Preparing for military contingencies is what people do in the Defense Department.
Starting a war, however, should be (a) the decision of Congress and (b) in response to an attack on the US or the trade of the US.
Since Pearl Harbor, all American wars have been unjustified.