But none of that seems to have transited any nerve synapses in the numb presidential skull, from which very recently issued the order to attack the armed forces of the sovereign state of Iraq. Sort of one of those act of war dealy bobs.
This stupid escalation in the context of a stabilizing situation in Iraq and Syria will now go through the usual filter of anti-Iran hysteria and bloviation on "terror" for the immediate future, almost certainly in the context of what will be adjudged to be irrational, vicious, and downright naughty retaliation by enraged Iranians and Iraqis. As the nonsense about Iran as the chief sponsor of terror in the world will be flogged like a rented mule by administration spokesmen and shameless shills on the sound stages of CNN and the rest of the scum-sucking media outlets, let me at least contribute these skeptical views on that here:
Self-delusion and denial with regards to Iran's alleged status as the leading sponsor of international terrorism are rampant in Washington and among the punditry. It is crazy, it is dishonest and it is wrong. This is not my opinion. I can do math. I can count. If Iran was actually continuing to act like it did 30 years ago, when it was a major sponsor of terrorism, then we would be able to point to those attacks.Mr. Johnson runs the numbers.
See also the 12/21/17 memo from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity:
The depiction of Iran as “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism” is not supported by the facts. While Iran is guilty of having used terrorism as a national policy tool, the Iran of 2017 is not the Iran of 1981. In the early days of the Islamic Republic, Iranian operatives routinely carried out car bombings, kidnappings and assassinations of dissidents and of American citizens. That has not been the case for many years. Despite frequent claims by U.S. officials that Iran is engaged in terrorism, we simply note that the incidents recorded annually in the U.S. Department of State’s Patterns of Global Terrorism rarely identifies a terrorist incident as an act by or on behalf of Iran.[2]And for one last bit of perspective on this sick focus on "terror" who but U.S. officials can forget that it has been the Saudis, Qataris, Turks, and the U.S. and its NATO lickspittles who have waged an illegal war on the sovereign state of Syria and caused thereby the death of over 500,000 civilians? Oh. That! But, but Iranian terror.
What terror?
Notes
[1] "Iran Is Not a Major Sponsor of Terrorism, Not Even Close." By Larry C. Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis, 5/16/19.
[2] "Is Iran the 'World’s Leading Sponsor of Terrorism?'" By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, 12/21/17.
3 comments:
What?? You say Iran not biggest sponsor of terrorism? But Iran supports Hezbollah, and Hezbollah has aided (gasp!) the Palestinians, who wantonly fire thousands of rockets a day at poor innocent peaceful Israeli settlers. And He-He-Hezbollah has also aided (choke!) the vicious malicious dictator Assad in fighting America's ally...er, oops...foe, ISIS in Syria. [Sarc]
It takes a strong stomach and a great deal of time to penetrate the fog of obfuscation that hangs over everything east of Limassol on any good day. The piece by the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity on this "chief sponsor of terrorism" charge seems like the best starting point and I believe I've posted about that piece in the past.
On the larger issue of Israel I confess to have traveled somewhat past the stirring music and apple-cheeked maidens of the movie "Exodus." I think a lot of other people have moved in that direction as well, most likely long before I did. Now I think we see that the Zionist dream, which was always an odd one, appears quite starkly in an experiment where a great many Jews appeared in Palestine rather quickly and, may I say it in so many words, pushed the locals out of their own land. That made a certain segment of the world giddy with delight but it should surprise no one that the locals never got over being dispossessed for reasons that a lot of Jews were noble beyond compare. Having set down in a dangerous neighborhood, Israelis are paying a steep price for their success, no small part of which is the necessity to remain militarized to the rafters. Their enemies behaved badly at times and committed acts of serious terror against innocent Israelis. The Israelis have in turn acted like thugs, bombing and invading at their leisure AND dumping sewage on Arab West Bank villages, executed prisoners on video, and engaged in their present sniping "defense" campaign against the vicious and cunning assaults on the border by teenagers, journalists, and nurses.
In other words, a rat's nest of culpability and historic grievances pulled from all over the world. The savants at the CFR may be able to assign blame appropriately here but until they do the military balance will continue to shift in favor of the Arabs and, I dearly hope, Americans and all Westerners will come to see the Zionist experiment as something that is not their affair and which, therefore, we ought not to enable financially and militarily. Israel never will be a welcome presence in Palestine and perhaps all that fabulous Rothschild and Adelson wealth can be used to purchase a new homeland in a more hospitable location. Israel is simply NOT and NEVER WILL BE something that can exist where it is, especially if it has ideas of expanding significantly its deliberately undeclared borders.
reasons that a lot of Jews consider were noble . . . .
expanding significantly beyond its deliberately undeclared borders.
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