- Like Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran has never attacked the US, nor threatened to do so. Nor has Iran had a history of aggression since the Iran-Iraq war was initiated by Iraq. Attacking would violate every international convention in existence. The US would again be an illegal aggressor. Would the rest of the world continue to sit idly buy as we villify innocent nations to pillage their resources, set up puppet regimes, and torture their citizens?
- After the US illegally attacked Iraq to steal its oil and place a puppet regime in place and canceled foreign contracts of governments that invested in Iraq, China got some sense and realized that the US neocons are the primary threat to world peace and increased trading with Iran. Iran, being flush with cash from the high prices of crude resulting from the US invasion of Iraq was quickly able to boost their defensive military capability.Such Chinese-Iranian trade has resulted in the development of a pipeline, an automotive factory, and upgraded missile systems. The Chinese, not wishing this petroleum resource to also be stolen by the mercantilist neocons, have also made statements suggesting that they would defend Iran if Iran were also attacked by the oil/empire-thirsty neocons.
- Like Iraq, Iran could be conquered quickly at the cost of tens of thousands of Iranian civilian casualties, especially if the neocrazies choose to use nukes, but holding Iran would be even more difficult and expensive. This would require financial and troop resources the US simply could not muster.
- The US military is already over-stretched and our economy in ruins (high inflation, sky-rocketing oil prices, increasing personal and national debt) and few are foolish enough to sign up now for Bush's glory. As in Vietnam, a military draft for this highly illegal power grab would result in very large rates of fragging, suicide, drug use, and dissertion.
- The price of oil would sky rocket even more, since the military would consume more, Iran would destroy much of it, and extraction resources would be in disrepair, and frequently sabotaged.
- Would the Chinese continue to finance our economy after the neocon empiricists screw them once again?
- Terrorism would increase once again as it would become more clear that the "war on terror" is a cultural war against Islam, not a war on terror per se.
14.8.05
Propaganda Preparations Are Underway Against Iran
Predictably, the neocrazies are running their propaganda machines overtime against the soverign democracy of Iran. Let us look at why an attack against Iraq would be immoral and a bad idea:
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Very valid points, every last one. Number six is especially important to consider. I'm truly amazed at how many otherwise rational, well-educated and informed Americans cling tenaciously to the fantasy that China (and all of our other Asian creditors) will continue to sustain our fiscal profligacy for an indefinite period. Given the ever-dwindling worth of the national scrip we call a currency, it defies belief that we've been able to continue as long as we have, since surely by now the Asian central banks must realize that their investments in U.S. T-Bills will never yield a return commensurate with the expectations of the investment.
As for the prospect of nuclear war with Iran, there may be reason to hope that what will amount to the first mutiny ever by the United States armed services will put a stop to any such plans. It simply defies logic to believe that even the weak politicians that pass for leadership in today's military will sit by idly as a president who has little sympathy or support among the brass (and, increasingly, the troops in the trenches) attempts to launch a gratuitous war that will end civilization as we know it.
To paraphrase an old Chinese saying, we are indeed living in interesting times. One wonders if the world's two remaining powers, China and Russia, may be brought together to counter a perceived American threat to global stability.
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