Suicide Kool-Aid

Will America attack Iran? If so, it won’t include a ground invasion this time, but more likely a series of extensive air attacks on various targets real and imagined, and quite possibly employing small tactical nuclear weapons.

Of course, the irony of using nuclear weapons against a nation which indisputably has none, and does not have the capability to develop any any time soon and which claims only a legal desire to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, is lost on an administration for whom subtlety and nuance have never been strong points.

Also unavailable is awareness of the breathtaking hypocrisy in that the only nation to have employed nuclear weapons against two different civilian populations is once again claiming pre-emptive self-defense while contemplating a third eternally unforgivable crime against humanity. And recall that thanks to the US, Israel, that humanitarian paragon of restraint and progress possesses an arsenal of around 200 weapons, ones which its leaders have said it would not hesitate to use to threaten and extort the USA. Seems to be working, so far.

If America attacks Iran it will be for some of the same reasons that it attacked Iraq: advancement of world dominance as outlined in The Plan for a New American Century (PNAC), destabilization of the current regime, and to advance Israel’s goals in the region. If the Iraq adventure had gone better (Cheney’s rose petals and all that), then a full scale occupation might have ensued with the de rigueur establishment of military bases and (once again, after deposing PM Mossedeq in1953 and installing the Shah) control of Iranian oil. The best laid plans might ‘gang astray’, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still drop bombs.

At this point, if America attacks Iran it will be for some of the following reasons.