If you read the major American newspapers or watch the propaganda on
cable TV, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. foreign policy Establishment
is again spoiling for a fight, this time in Iran.
Just as Iraq’s
Saddam Hussein was the designated target of American hate in 2002 and
2003, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is playing that role now.
Back then, any event in Iraq was cast in the harshest possible light;
today, the same is done with Iran.
Anyone who dares suggest that
the situation on the ground might not be as black and white as the
Washington Post’s editors claim it is must be an “apologist” for the
enemy regime. It’s also not very smart for one’s reputation to question
the certainty of the reporting in the New York Times, whether about
Iraq’s “aluminum tubes” for nuclear centrifuges in 2002 or regarding
Iran’s “rigged” election in 2009.
It’s much better for one’s
career to clamber onto the confrontation bandwagon. Nobody in the major
U.S. media or in politics will ever be hurt by talking tough and flexing
muscles regarding some Muslim “enemy.” And, if the posturing leads to
war, it will fall mostly to working-class kids to do the fighting and
dying while the bills can be passed along to future generations.
Even
groups that should know better – like Votevets.org representing
veterans of th… >>>
