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You misspelled Saudi Arabia https://t.co/W3oqMvBD2v
-- Daniel Larison (@DanielLarison) August 6, 2018
This is not to suggest that the US should be starting a conflict with Saudi Arabia (not that there's any danger of that happening with the lucrative petrodollar deals and the amount of lobbyists that the KSA keeps pouring into Washington). It's just to flag the fact that there's nothing you can say about Iran that can't be said far more damningly about Saudi Arabia, so anyone who babbles about the Iranian government's human rights violations or terrorist funding isn't arguing based on principle, but based on something their television told them to believe and regurgitate. If it were really about humanitarian concerns instead of some deceitful propaganda injected into their thought stream by right-wing media, they wouldn't be pointing at Saudi Arabia's chief geopolitical rival Iran, they'd be pointing at Saudi Arabia.
Hence Bolton's media tour. If he and his neocon cohorts succeed in implementing the same strategy in Iran that was implemented against Libya and Syria, we can expect unfathomable destabilization, suffering and death, and it will be necessary to stay ahead of that narrative and make sure that people are talking about the catastrophe as a "civil war" and not a destabilization deliberately engineered by the US-centralized alliance. All Trump's people need to do is keep circulating lies about Iran, and all Trump's fake opposition has to do is mostly ignore them.
And of course from his history we know that Bolton would happily facilitate such an agenda. The man is the closest thing that this world has to a true monster.
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