Trashing Iran

Currently the big question is what incident or circumstance will be fabricated, exaggerated, disguised, or otherwise manipulated by the Bush neocons in order to create a pretext for trashing Iran. As was the case with Iraq, Iran is no threat to the U.S. This is all about Israel. (Like all other Muslim countries, Iran despises Israel's brutal occupation and colonization of Muslim lands.) Inasmuch as we are already going bankrupt losing two wars, it is clear we can not afford a third. However, as exemplified by Israel's extensive bombing of Lebanon last summer, the neocon goal is not winning wars but trashing Israel's enemies. Meanwhile, to further benefit Israel, why not foment some more civil wars along the way! Seymour Hersh reports that we are bolstering Sunni extremist groups in Syria and Lebanon which are sympathetic to Al Qaeda ("The New Yorker" 3/5/07) Never mind the fact that these groups hate Americans more than they hate the Shiites we're paying them to bomb. It turns out there's no way to prevent the money and weapons provided to these Sunni extremist groups from ending up in the hands of the Sunnis who are attacking our troops in Iraq. Indeed, the enormous black hole into which US taxpayers' grandchildren's billions have disappeared, unaccounted for, in Iraq is being used as a money pot to finance these Sunni extremist groups. No matter! We must continue to instigate civil wars in Israel's enemies as advocated by Obed Yinon. (See previous blog entry "Civil War Advocates" 4-15-06.) And who knows? As an added bonus, these "covert actions" may even provoke an Iranian response giving the Bush neocons an excuse to trash Iran.