When they are talking about the coming war with Iran with concern at the Davos conference, where they usually spend their time figuring out ways to screw the rest of us, that's bad. For something to hurt them, it has to damn near kill the rest of us.
It is self-evidently true that even a lot of people on the left will be blind-sided by the coming Iran War, even people who accurately predicted the Iraq War and it's consequences don't seem to be sounding the alarm as effectively.
I suspect a couple of reasons for this:
- the return of divided government and relative sanity on the domestic front makes it look like our democracy is no longer within inches of being choked to death.
- the same cognitive dissonance that prevented people from seeing that our leaders were intentionally lying to us for the basest of motives is at work again. This time though, rather than believe them and get in a lather of fear, we are putting the whole issue out of our mind even though the consequences will be far worse, far faster than Iraq.
- some of the Democrats who were critics of the Iraq War, rather than saying the threat from Iran was inflated as well, would say Iraq was a distraction from the real threat, Iran. Essentially, they laid some of th propaganda groundwork for the Bushies.
Maybe something has gone on in the smoke-filled rooms that will stop this, but the action by Congress has so far been too tepid to get the job done.
January 27 / 28, 2007
Targeting Iran
Why Can't Americans See What's Coming?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTSRather than winding down one war, Bush is starting another. The entire world knows this and is discussing Bush's planned attack on Iran in many forums. It is only Americans who haven't caught on. A few senators have said that Bush must not attack Iran without the approval of Congress, and postings on the Internet demonstrate world wide awareness that Iran is in the Bush Regime's cross hairs. But Congress and the Media--and the demonstration in Washington--are focused on Iraq.
What can be done to bring American awareness up to the standard of the rest of the world?
In Davos, Switzerland, the meeting of the World Economic Forum, a conference where economic globalism issues are discussed, opened January 24 with a discussion of Bush's planned attack on Iran. The Secretary General of the League of Arab States and bankers and businessmen from such US allies as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates all warned of the coming attack and its catastrophic consequences for the MIddle East and the world.
Writing for Global Research (January 24), General Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of Staff of the Russian Armies, forecast an American nuclear attack on Iran by the end of April. General Ivashov presented the neoconservative reasoning that is the basis for the attack and concluded that the world's protests cannot stop the US attack on Iran.
There will be shock and indignation, General Ivashov concludes, but the US will get away with it. He writes:
"Within weeks from now, we will see the informational warfare machine start working. The public opinion is already under pressure. There will be a growing anti-Iranian militaristic hysteria, new information leaks, disinformation, etc. . . . The probability of a US aggression against Iran is extremely high. It does remain unclear, though, whether the US Congress is going to authorize the war. It may take a provocation to eliminate this obstacle (an attack on Israel or the US targets including military bases). The scale of the provocation may be comparable to the 9-11 attack in NY. Then the Congress will certainly say "Yes" to the US President."
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