In reply to “The Inevitable War with Iran,” by Philip Giraldi, 12/15/11:
“The drumbeat is incessant,” writes Philip Giraldi, “fed by weekly warnings from leading Israeli politicians and truculent editorials and poorly informed op-eds in leading American newspapers.”
True — but when has that ever NOT been the case, at least since the late 1970s?
The US has waged low-intensity war on Iran (sanction, blockade, black ops), and vice versa, for three decades.
The US has waged proxy wars on Iran (using Saddam in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Lebanon, etc.), and vice versa, for three decades.
It’s been a mini-Cold-War … not with quite as much security against breaking out for real as with the US/USSR “Mutual Assured Destruction” safeguard, but still probably undeserving of Antiwar.com’s constant (pretty much since the site came online) alarmism on the topic.
The US isn’t any more on the brink of open war with Iran than it was last year, or the year before, or 15 years ago. And probably not as much so as it was circa 1979-89.
Amos Thorpe Plank
In reply to “Iraq: No Comfort in Being Right,” by Kelley B. Vlahos, 12/13/11:
Like Jeanette Rankin said, you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Unfortunately, this “earthquake” seems custom-made to continue producing deadly aftershocks for a long, long time.
Anonymous
In reply to “CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone,” by Jason Ditz, 12/06/11:
Bumbling is a strategic tactic. I would not be surprised to find that the missing drone is some sort of “poison pill” designed to attack the people trying to back engineer it — for example, by sending a Stuxnet-level computer virus into the probes attached to it.
Mike MacLeod
