(Weapons of Mass Deception) has been running war games Vis a Vis Iran.
He wrote to me on the weekend after talking to Pentagon insiders. His
conclusion: "It would be hard to overestimate the danger of a major
war," he says. They say the Israeli soldiers they captured were fighting
illegally in Lebanon.
He says be believes the US and Israel are coordinating their strategies.
While he believes that Iran is orchestrating Hamas and Hezbollah through
Syria, he also says: "That does not mean that Israel is not taking
advantage of the events. They have decided on regime change in Gaza and
on punishing Hezbollah while establishing a buffer zone to prevent
rocket attacks. As closely as the US and Israel have been coordinating,
one has to assume coordination."
Former Israeli independence fighter and now peace activist Uri Avnery
goes further contending: "As in 1982, the present operation, too, was
planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US. As
then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the
Lebanese elite."
And who wants this war? The Toronto Star's Linda McQuaig challenges the
dominant view in DC that it is only the Iranians.
Iran want to provoke a war with Israel and the U.S. - both heavily armed
nuclear powers - when it has no nuclear weapons itself?"
Summer is often called the silly season. While the Bush Administration
is losing one war in Iraq, and another with public opinion here at home,
it seems to be opting for more conflicts as its backers bang the drum
for a new world war.
Years ago, Che Guevara called for "I, 2, 3" Vietnams. The Busheviks
today may be moving toward '1, 2, 3' world wars.
Sound crazy? In our Orwellian political climate, a new generation of Dr
Strangelove's are in command. Only this time, they don't act like
loonies but have mastered the art of the TV interview and can, with
selective facts and ideology packaged as information, make insanity
sound oh so sane.
They have convinced themselves, and now want to convince us, to join a
new hegemonic adventure to expand their failed "GWOT," (Global War on
Terror), whatever the costs.
And where is the media in all this, to rein them in, to connect the
dots, to offer the missing context and background, to make vital
distinctions between the aggressor and those agressed upon, and to stand
up for international law, human rights, and sanity? NBC is giving the
Gingrichs and Pearls of the world a platform to advocate more killing
with no one to challenge them effectively.
We need more critics like Cenk Uygur who challenges William Kristol on
Huffington Post in these terms:
"Bill Kristol has never seen a war he didn't like. No, that's too soft.
A war he didn't love and lust after. Here's a wolf in sheep's clothing
pretending to be serious, sober minded analyst on television when in
reality he is trying to get us sucked into horrific wars that other
people will die fighting."
Why didn't Tim Russert have the guts to say something similar to Newt
Gingrich?
Has mainstream media devolved so far that a world war is now considered
a legitimate subject to advocate? Doesn't this new "mission" add up to
more madness?
Has it come to this? Is the summer heat corroding our senses? Is global
warming melting our brains?
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