Back in March, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson said that the U.S. plan is round the clock bombing of 10,000 targets in Iran over 70 days: http://bit.ly/dCIKUp
This month, the cover story of the U.S. Army bi-monthly journal Military Review is an article by Amitai Etzioni, professor of international relations at George Washington University, in which he basically argues that the only way to deal with Iran is to bomb it back to the Stone Age, citing a comparison with WWII bombing of Dresden and Tokyo: “the bombing of select dual-use assets will be undertaken, including key elements of the infrastructure, like bridges, railroad stations, and other such assets.”: http://bit.ly/aHfPw2
As French President Jacques Chirac and a number of top Israeli officials and others have already stated (and any rational mind can independently conclude), a nuclear armed Iran is not a serious threat, because others have far superior command and control systems, nuclear (and non-nuclear) arsenals, and highly effective means of delivering them. This, together with Wilkerson’s revelations in March, and open advocacy of demolishing Iran in a reputable U.S military journal, indicates that the nuclear dog and pony show that has been run by successive U.S. administrations has nothing to do with security and nukes, and everything to do with geopolitics.
The Mafia Principle that drives U.S. foreign policy means that the power elites cannot tolerate the slightest open defiance from any entity, even when that entity is not a serious threat to their global interests. This mafia principle is the overwhelming driver for the U.S. war preparations against Iran. The possibility of gaining effective control over Iran’s vast hydrocarbon resources, educated workforce, and substantial market, however remote, is but an added bonus that could turn the ruling elites’ wildest wet dream into reality. Failing that, there is always the exciting prospect of breaking up the country into more managable pieces.
