The whole insanely reckless act of launching a sweeping military attack on a nation of 90 million people that had zero capacity to impose military harm on the home territory of the United States is predicated on one of the Great Big Stinking Lies of History namely, that the Iranian regime is a uniquely evil stain on the face of the earth and has spent 47 years bringing injury, mayhem, and death to America and much of the region around it.......
Here are the key realities:
- Not one of the 1,050 American deaths during this period occurred on American soil.
- Exactly 1,041 of these deaths occurred at the hands of alleged Iranian proxies versus only 9 attributable to the Iranian military or other government agencies.
- Fully 1,000 or 96% of the American deaths happened in the context of U.S. military deployments to the region and the resulting active wars and peacekeeping activities in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and adjacent territories and coastal waters.
That’s right. Not one of these U.S. military deployments from the Beirut Marine barracks forward was necessary for America’s homeland security. To the contrary, all were elective wars undertaken in pursuit of the imperatives of Empire.
Accordingly, the resulting deaths are due to putting American military and civilian personnel wrongfully in harm’s way— and most especially from taking sides in local and regional military conflicts that were none of Washington’s business.
In short, the 1,000 American deaths chant is completely and hideously wrong because these figures resulted from Washington-initiated military actions in the Mideast that were wholly unjustified; and, consequently, put American lives in harm’s way against local people who had reason to defend themselves from actual or potential U.S. military assault......
.....indeed, even if you consider these unfortunate deaths as abstract statistics without context or blame, there is absolutely no cause to start a quasi-world war in the Persian Gulf, which supplies a crucial share of the world’s crude oil, refined petroleum, LPGs, liquefied natural gas, industrial sulfur, and helium crucial to semiconductor chip production, among others.
To the contrary, the unhinged madman domiciled in the all-powerful Oval Office has the region, the U.S., and the global economy on the edge of catastrophic upheaval based on an utterly untruthful narrative about 1,050 American deaths during the last 47 years that were far exceeded by the ordinary course accidents and hazards of daily life in America during that same period, such as fatalities from:
- Powered Lawnmower Accidents: 3,200 deaths.
- Bee Stings: 3,900 deaths.
- Falling out of Bed: 10,300 deaths.
- Visiting Mexico: 4,000 Americans murdered there.
- Lightning strikes: 2,000 deaths.
- Cardiac arrest during sex: 8,000 deaths.
