Nov 13, 2007

Iran Strike Coming?


Colin Powell: Iran Far From Having Nuke

Only in Bush's America (including the many depraved Democrats who lie down as an obscene foreign policy is loosed upon the world) does a debate occur pondering whether we launch another assault on yet another country, Iran. [USS Eisenhower, pictured at right, in the Persian Gulf last year]

What are the defense planners in Iran pondering? I suggest this:

It shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any attack launched from Israel or the United States against any target in Iran as an attack by Israel and the United States on the Iranian people, requiring a full retaliatory response upon Israeli and American targets.

That means World War III.

The above speculated Iranian ruminations are a paraphrase of one point of Kennedy's address announcing the quarantine against Cuba, October 22, 1962.

What's frightening is that this time, the American administration is clearly the aggressor nation, destabilizing and threatening the world.

As American citizens, we ought not just resist this administration's war plans at home (and let's hope that they are aborted), but wish for a comprehensive world response against the aggressive plans of this authoritarian Bush regime.

One wishes that the obvious costs of an Israeli/American strike against Iran would preclude such aggressive and reckless action. But rational actors are in short supply in the Bush administration.

Scott Horton at Harper's weighs some key points in his piece. Here's an excerpt from Horton's 1,300-word piece:

Still, my sense this week is that the roll-out for attacks on Iran has, to the great distraction of its sponsors, not gained the sort of traction that they envisaged for it. I am therefore pulling back on the prospects for the Cheney air war on Iran before the end of the Bush presidency, putting this again at a break-even proposition. Here are some of the points for the pushback.

I disagree with Horton that lack of traction, little political support among foreign policy elites, and hostility from the military brass are sufficient to dissuade Bush and Cheney, if they have already decided that surrogate Israel or American military strikes are in the offing.

And the predictable economic and political dislocations do not figure into the machinations of these people; the loonies are in charge.

The fact is we have a radical, dangerous regime running the U.S., and the barriers and constraints that would have precluded, say, the disaster of Iraq do not have the normal force of reason on this radical, statist, out-of-control regime.

Really, as citizens, we can only hope.

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