By Fred Reed
May
16, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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Why
did the Cockatoo-in-Chief renege on the Iran
deal deeply prized by Russia, China, France,
Germany, England, and the European Union?
Why did he deliberately damage relations
with Europe and cost American workers many
thousands of jobs at Boeing among others?
Why do all of this to hurt a country that
poses no danger to the United States?
Israel.
Israel, Israel. Israel. Israel.
Always Israel.
If Iran were a threat to the existence of
Israel, things would be different. If
Muslims conquered the Jews, they would
presumably treat them as badly as Israelis
,and very likely worse. It would be ugly in
the extreme. To prevent this, use of the
American military would be justified.
But Iran does not threaten the existence of
Israel. It does threaten Israel’s dominance
in the Mid-East. Iran is far larger and more
populous than Israel, strategically located,
and has vast amounts of oil. It is a large
market for many European products. By
contrast, Israel is small and has nothing
anyone needs or wants. Left to itself, Iran
would become the dominant regional power. It
moves fast in that direction now with
burgeoning trade with Europe in, among many
other things, airliners. With economic
influence comes political influence.
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Consequently Israel does not want Iran to
prosper. If it can, Israel will use the
American military to prevent this
prospering. It will destroy America’s
relations with the rest of the world to
prevent it. It is doing so.
As thinking people know, the twaddle about
the Iranian’s development of an atomic bomb
is just that–twaddle. The Europeans know
this, which is why they are not alarmed. The
US government know it, since the
intelligence agencies have repeatedly said
that Iran does not have a program aimed at
producing a nuclear weapon.
But: Whenever the Amrican government, or
those controlling it, wants to drive the US
into a war, it invents a frightening danger
and warns of it over and over and over until
a poorly educated public believes it: The
Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq’s WMD, the
Iranian bomb. It’s a frightening world,
Washington tells us. Things go bump in the
night. Boo.
Where does Trump fit into this? Although his
supporters offer him as a masterly
statesman, biographies, which few read, show
him to be profoundly ignorant, incoherent,
narcissistic, weak, and easily manipulated.
He loves attention and craves praise. He is
also corrupt. As a businessman he danced
just this side of the law in many shady
real-estate deals. All of this is
documented, but few will read of it.
Some will say that this isn’t true. Go back
and look at the things he said during the
campaign, the positions he was going to take
before he was modified. He astonished people
who worked in his White House not just by
his lack of knowledge but his lack of
interest in learning. We are ruled by a
histrionic dwarf.
But, in a country with no checks and
balances on presidential power, foreign
policy is what he says it is, and America
attacks whoever he wants it to attack.
So why did he ditch the Iran deal? There is
of course anti-Jewish posting on the web to
the effect that the Jews are manipulating
the government to go to destroy Iran for the
benefit of Israel. This doesn’t hold water,
or only a little water. Surveys have shown
that American Jews favor the Iran deal more
than do other Americans. This probably is
because they are more attentive and better
informed than the notoriously clueless US
public. (e.g. JStreet and WashPost.) But
while “the Jews” didn’t sink the Iran deal,
a comparatively small number of Israel-firsters
did. These are the Neocons, warlike and
heavily Jewish, plus the Jewish lobby AIPAC
plus a few Jewish billionaires. Collectively
they determine American foreign policy, and
not for the benefit of America–which, again,
has nothing to gain and much to lose by
being manipulated into a war that does not
matter to America.
Members of AIPAC are often accused of dual
loyalty. I don’t think so, though it is the
best we can hope for. They should recuse
themselves, though of course they will not.
The assertion that America should fight only
wars in the America interest will be called,
sigh, anti-semitism. It is not. Yes, there
exists in some quarters an obsessive,
grinding hatred of Jews. Historically this
hostility has been common if not universal
and has led to brutal pogroms. But it has
nothing to do with war against Iran. The
desire for America to have an independent
foreign policy hardly suggests a Cossack
mentality. There is no reason to let Israel
and a small set of Israeli patriots in New
York force policies much to the harm of the
United States.
But this is not at all unlikely. In
Washington–where I worked in journalism for
decades–fear of Jews is so great that no one
dares say what a great many are thinking. It
gets ridiculous. I remember many years back
interviewing in the Pentagon the general who
headed the armor command, whose name I
forget. In such interviews there is usually
a babysitter present, often a major from
public affairs, who tries to manage spin.
The general and I were chatting about tanks,
in which we both had a technical interest.
He commented that the Merkava, a homebrew
Israel tank, was reasonably good but not in
a class with the American M1. As
inflammatory comments go, this was truly
lame. Yet when I left, the babysitter came
charging down the corridor to assure me that
the general was not insulting the Israeli
tank, the general didn’t mean, and the major
hoped I wouldn’t think etc. It’s that crazy.
Whether Trump believes what he says about
Iran’s imaginary lunge for a Bomb is not
clear. In Washington it is routine to lie
about this or that dreadful danger so as to
herd the deplorables toward a desired
folly–but is Trump herding or herded? He is
clueless about things military and appears
to have no grasp of technology. Geography is
not his strong suit, as witness his
invention of a country called “Nambia.”
Netanyahu and the Neocons outclass him by a
wide margin and apparently drive him like a
truck.
If Trump were an American President, he
would tell the Israelis' to fight their own
wars with their own military. Is he? Watch.
Fred Reed is a retired news weasel and
part-time sociopath living in Mexico with
his wife and three useless but agreeable
street dogs.
http://fredoneverything.org/
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