Just as the war in Iraq couldn’t be sold to the American public on the basis of its actual rationale, expanding U.S. global hegemony, neither can the true reasons for Washington’s policies towards Iran be mentioned. It just wouldn’t do. Better, as with Iraq, to construct nonsensical arguments dependent upon an extraordinary level of intentional ignorance and consisting at the most fundamental level of claims for which there is little, if any, evidence to support.Whether the American public has learned the more obvious and crucial lessons from Iraq and has the moral integrity to act on them remains to be seen. But what is for certain is that without massive public pressure on Washington to alter its Iran policy, the U.S. will maintain a course the consequences of which might very well prove, as with Iraq, to be disastrous.
I agree, Stanley. The securocrats are spinning furiously against Iran just now of course. The Guardian newspaper in the UK, unusually, carried an article yesterday alleging Iranian involvement in the holding of the UK hostage Peter Moore, a contactor. This is clearly a Pentagon-placed fantasy and the Guardian should be ashamed to have swallowed it never mind published it.
Just as the war in Iraq couldn’t be sold to the American public on the basis of its actual rationale, expanding U.S. global hegemony, neither can the true reasons for Washington’s policies towards Iran be mentioned. It just wouldn’t do. Better, as with Iraq, to construct nonsensical arguments dependent upon an extraordinary level of intentional ignorance and consisting at the most fundamental level of claims for which there is little, if any, evidence to support.Whether the American public has learned the more obvious and crucial lessons from Iraq and has the moral integrity to act on them remains to be seen. But what is for certain is that without massive public pressure on Washington to alter its Iran policy, the U.S. will maintain a course the consequences of which might very well prove, as with Iraq, to be disastrous.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Stanley. The securocrats are spinning furiously against Iran just now of course. The Guardian newspaper in the UK, unusually, carried an article yesterday alleging Iranian involvement in the holding of the UK hostage Peter Moore, a contactor. This is clearly a Pentagon-placed fantasy and the Guardian should be ashamed to have swallowed it never mind published it.
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