War Finds A Way
President Trump announced tonight that the U.S. has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. After these attacks, he’s now asking for peace.
That the attacks were coming was obvious. Even Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was brought firmly into line before the attacks. As the Downing Street Memo said about the Iraq War, the intelligence was fixed around the policy. In Iraq, the policy was a regime-change war; with Iran, the policy is to destroy nuclear sites and possibly to topple the Iranian government. A predetermined policy determines what is a “fact” and what isn’t.
When you have an empire like the U.S. that devotes so much of its money and resources to the military, and when you have leaders desperate to be seen as “strong” and decisive, this is what happens. Military attacks followed by declarations that America seeks peace. War for peace. It makes no sense, but there you go.
Cui bono? Who benefits? Certainly, Israel in its ongoing efforts to dominate the region. Israel’s influence over U.S. foreign policy is remarkable. There was no way Trump was not going to bomb Iran, given the push from Israel to do so.
What happens next, I don’t know. But I did think that this was exactly what Trump would do—bomb Iran—because it’s always what the U.S. does.
Somewhere, in perhaps some hell, John McCain is singing a ditty about bombing Iran. People may have made fun of him, but the man predicted the future—and the future is now.
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Damn the orange asshole! Iran never attacked us. We shouldn’t be waging Israel’s war! I’m so angry!!
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It’s a terrible day. It may be that this will be the beginning of the end of Zionist domination of American politics, the servicing of Israel so transparent. Trump’s devotees are now divided. MTG and Tucker Carlson against the war is indicative of that.
In the case of Iraq, the deceit was not fully revealed until there were no WMD’s found. In the present case it was known that Iran had no nukes, that it was a signatory of the NPT and that it was willing to talk.
Israel killed some of the Iranian negotiators along with a number of other Iranian officials and officers and then launched the initial attack. There is no disguising the most outrageous flouting of law that Israel has ever conducted and that is saying quite a lot.
I don’t hesitate to say that Zionism has been a curse on the middle east from the start. Never has hatred been so paired with a feeling of righteousness. Never has such a tragedy, the holocaust, been leveraged for so much horror. I saw without hesitation that the holocaust doomed Israel even as it made its establishment possible. The US made the monster by protecting it from all consequences, has now been directed by that monster into a war with no purpose and what remains to be seen is how the US will extract itself from the terrible grip of Zionism.
I’m on the street almost daily breaking that grip in mind. My sign yesterday was NO AMERICAN LIVES KILLING IRANIANS FOR ISRAEL. Today I saw the first evidence of Americans daring to speak in public against Israel. A man had written in soap on his rear car window with a denunciation of Israel, “Victim card not accepted!” I introduced myself and handed him my card.
clifbrown.substack.com
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