It's not just Sarah and teabaggers(aka moonbats) who are thinking and saying 'bomb Iran before it's too late'. According to some experts, Iran could have a nuclear warhead as early as the middle of next year and a missile in less than five. Should we be worried? Yes, is the obvious answer because some of the proposed solutions for bringing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime to heel are no less scary than the idea of him having the bomb in the first place. This week speaker after speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington made the case that the White House should substantially turn up the pressure on, if not place itself on an effective war footing with, Tehran. Admittedly, to some extent this was to be expected, coming as it did from the heart of America’s pro-Israel lobby. Having said that, even by their own hawkish standards, there was a real sense of menace in the tone of the conference. At times this year’s AIPAC pow-wow almost felt like a council of war. Perhaps the scariest thing of all was that many of the guest US Congressmen were among the most bellicose. “All options must be on the table” and “you know exactly what I’m talking about”, said Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. “They should not have one plane that can fly or one ship that can float,” was Graham’s apocalyptic conclusion. It worries us at WITC that even among more mainstream US political thinking, the “bomb Iran” lobby is gaining momentum. In a New York Times opinion piece this month, the writer pointed out: “With Iran’s nuclear clock ticking and its people suffering, the world must understand that America’s patience is limited and the time to wait is coming to an end.” Iranian people suffering? Well, bombing Tehran into oblivion is really going to help alleviate that. But, hey, look on the positive side, at least American “impatience” would be salved.
As reported here and at www.afghancentral.blogspot.com in previous posts evidence already exists that US preparations for a military strike appear quite advanced. Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US Navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures. A shipping company based in Florida, Superior Maritime Services, will be paid $699,500 to transport many thousands of military items from Concord, California, to Diego Garcia.
They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran. But would an Obama administration launch such a venture. Who knows - Obama said recently that a nuclear empowered Iran would be 'unacceptable'. So what is he going to do about it?
Obama is having a one on one dinner with Sarkozy tonight. Sarkozy wants Obama to commit to harder sanctions against Iran.
ReplyDeleteWonder if there is an AIPAC chapter in France? LOL.
Unless Obama is suicidal, he will not attack Iran.
Israel keeps beating the war drums, when in reality Israel is a clear and present danger to the world.
Iran does not have Nukes, Israel DOES. Yet Obama will not answer that question directly.
My only bit of sympathy for him is that some of his own party are AIPAC cheerleaders. What does he do? He should disown them, the clown Lieberman and all. But he won't of course.
ReplyDeleteBoth parties have been bought and paid for by AIPAC and their fellow travelers for decades.
ReplyDeleteIs is the 'think tanks', people with in the 'state dept', 'the media' the 'pentagon' the 'MIC', ETC that are also the problem. Just look at the O Team.
Yet, no one speaks for Palestine.
Yes no one in the wider world with a few distinguished exceptions. They don't have oil or natural resources to make them interesting to the neo-colonialists (or most of the media). Do you follow the articles/books/broadcasts of Robert Fisk, by any chance?
ReplyDeleteYa, I have his book at home---great war of civilisations-or something like that, i will have to look it up when i get home. if you see any articles by him please email them to me. my email is under my avatar.
ReplyDeleteThe Great War For Civilisation is the key book on these matters for me. I took a year to read the 1300 pages but it was worth it. Among other things, he pinpoints the key link and watershed in modern history to Iraq and Afghanistan. The link is Algeria, beginning with the French defeat there,not Vietnam(although,significantly, the French, for which read the West, were defeated there as well.)
ReplyDeleteThe clue is that [colonialism] does not work. It never has, never will. It is a short time span convenience for the occupier, but the withdrawal is always brutal, for both sides.
ReplyDeleteAlgeria was the ultimate hubris of France. I personally do not have much empathy for any thing French. Guess it is because I was born along the Rhine River in Germany. LOL
I'm afraid I remain a Francophile despite their actions in Algeria. Many French people opposed their own government in that brutal war. Ironically a real world leader like De Gaulle would never have tolerated the debacles which we have seen in western foreign policy recently. His Damascus moment in Algeria was belated but courageous and forward looking. Where is the De Gaulle among the pigmies on the world stage today? Is your French-aversion a German one or an American one?(yes, I remember the 'freedom fries'!! - I was in America for while when they were being sold!).
ReplyDeleteRE: French-aversion.
ReplyDeleteNo i thought that freedom fries business was childish.
I was trying to make jest of being born in the Rhineland, and the history between the two siding countries. Especially in that region.
Yes De Gaulle would not have put up with this. Sarkozy is no De Gaulle, he is one of them. Even a mini-De Gaulle would have brought peace to the middle east by now.
The world is different now. The shadows behind the curtains are putting the pedal to the metal.
IMO De Gaulle saw this coming, as did others in Europe.
Diplomacy is dead. Endless wars is now the driving force. Revived colonialism is back in fashion.
Back in the day, Communism was a convenient, contained global enemy.
Now with 'terrorism' 'Islamic extremeism' [whatever that is]lol is now the global enemy.
For the West Communism was a money machine for the MIC, but it could be contained.
Now with this 'enemy' it is a roving domino theory.
Problem---The West can herd this enemy to which ever region they wish. Russia being a good example. So it is guaranteed to be endless. IMO, We will know when the West is ready to pull out of Afghanistan as soon as we see they are hyping up a new region.
My guess is it will be Somalia.
Sorry, I thought you were serious about the Rhineland. Crossed my mind that you might be from a military US family based in Germany. Wouldn't really add up!! Somalia is a prime candidate indeed. It will be whoever can't hit back. Rules our N.Korea for sure. Wales?
ReplyDeleteI was born in Cologne- Koln- Germany. My father was actually in the German army during WWII. Eastern Front.
ReplyDeleteMy mother had to hide in the basement of a farm house most of the time during the war, because her maiden name was Jewish. Even though no one in her family were into Judaism. We had some family in the East after the war. We tried several times to get them out, but to no avail. I went to visit in East Germany a few times.:-)
So you see a wall here, a wall there, every where a wall. This is why I hate walls to this day. The Israeli walls will crumble, and rot, from with in. Just like the East German walls did. N/K Hmmm My wife is S/Korean. We went there to visit in 10/08 I really liked it there.
I believe N/Korea will become a quasi China state. It basically already is.
There are many targets. That is why I keep stressing----[Beware of False Flags].
Beware of False Flags is a good precept. Life here in Scotland is less complicated. The May General Election will set the scene for a 2011 referendum in Scotland about independence from the UK. I Support independence now, I didn't once, due to the depravities of the New Labour(read neocon) administration we have had for 13 years. I think most of my compatriots agree. Blair and Brown have a lot to answer for, not least a mountain of corpses in Iraq and increasingly in Afghanistan. To say nothing of their rancid domestic record. I'm a moderate generally - there are many here who are blazingly angry at what has happened to this country since 1997. A Scottish government would never have followed Bushco and it is no exaggeration to say that I know nobody here, and I know a lot of people, who supports the execrable foreign policy of the UK/US axis. By the way - I work for the government.
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