The nonsensical statement below from the Pentagon announcing that
the US government has committed an act of war against Iran should frighten
everyone:
“At the
direction of the president, the US military has taken decisive defensive action
to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist
Organization.”
“This
strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”
“The
United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people
and our interests wherever they are around the world.”
Murdering a high-ranking official of a
government is an act of war. It is impossible for
an act of war to protect US personnel abroad.
It is
impossible for an act of war against Iran to deter future Iranian attack plans. Where
there was no Iranian attack plan, there now is in response to the murder of
Soleimani.
Committing an
act of war does not “protect our people and our interests.” It
jeopardizes them.
How is it
possible for the Pentagon to issue such a nonsensical laughable justification
for murdering a top official of another country? If murdering Soleimani
was a “decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad,” why were US
citizens and embassy personnel told to depart the Middle East for their safety?
Where was Trump’s mind? Just as he is
emerging from the impeachment hoax, why did he commit an impeachable act? Trump attacked another country without Congressional
authorization. He
thumbed his nose at Congress and the law. It is the duty of the President to
enforce the laws of the United States, not break them. The
Democrats now have a real impeachable offense to hang around Trump’s neck.
But they
will not make us of it. Trump struck down Soleimani, because that is what
Netanyahu wanted. The main leaders of the impeachment hoax are Jews, and they
are not going to line up against Israel. Adam Schiff, for example, the Chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee who is leading the impeachment, gave his
approval to Soleimani’s murder when he tweeted that Suleimani “was responsible
for unthinkable violence and world is better off without him.”
Israel is the main culprit in this
crime.
Trump is a secondary culprit. Soleimani himself bears responsibility. He
should have known that he was a target and not exposed himself so carelessly. The
Russian government also bears responsibility. Russia, China and Iran should long ago
have formed a highly visible alliance. Such an alliance would have prevented
the crazy and irresponsible act that Israel manuevered Trump into committing. But
Putin doesn’t want war, and apparently historians have convinced Putin that
alliances are the cause of war. Thus Putin avoids alliances, taking his que
instead from American libertarians who say that free trade is the basis of
peace. Strength is the guarantor of peace, and strength rests in a powerful
alliance against US/Israeli aggression.
Iran’s response was predictable and
unfortunate. Iran
declared it will take revenge, and most likely will. Iran’s
revenge will give Israel the war it wants between the US and Iran.
Iran
would have done better to take its revenge and deny responsibility.
Idiot American politicians, one of whom
could end up as President, are furthering the cause of war by working up
American patriotism with claims, false of course, that Iran is a “terrorist
state” determined to harm America, that Iran is responsible for thousands of
deaths, including hundreds of Americans, and so forth.
We have
heard all of this before. It is the US that is the terrorist
state, having destroyed in whole or part seven Muslim countries in the 21st
century, producing millions of deaths, injuries, and dispossessed and displaced
peoples. I
knew it was going to get worse when the Russian government permitted Israel to
continue attacking Syrian targets after Russia had rescued Syria from
Washington’s proxy army.
As long as Israel runs US foreign
policy in Israel’s interest, and as long as “non-compliant” countries are
content for Washington to knock them off one by one, war will continue to be
our future.
Update:
Washington decided to further inflame the situation with another
strike: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/round-two-us-drone-airstrikes-kill-six-pro-iran-militia-commanders
