Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues.The rationale for this illegal pre-emptive war that not only lacks legitimacy but should land its perpetrators in the docks of the International Criminal Court, continues to get increasingly muddled.With USPresident Donald Trumpnow given to giving press conferences on the conflict,loony bin mutterings are becoming increasingly the norm.
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A common assumption behind these attacks is Israel’s firm, unremitting stranglehold on the US President. Combined with the considerable influence of what John Mearsheimer and Stephen Waltcalledthe “Israeli Lobby”, American foreign policy in the Middle East has been tenanted by Israeli interests. And Israel has shown itself to be a particularly bruising tenant in this regard.
While the central rationale is both fantastic and mendacious – namely, the destruction of a nuclear capability that had been, in any case,apparently obliteratedlast June – the view that Iran was going to unilaterally strike either Israel, the United States, its allies or all of the above, is fascinatingly absurd.
In a classified briefing with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill on March 2, senior administration officials putforth the positionthat Israel had already planned to strike Iran, with or without US support. Present wereSecretary of State Marco Rubio,the increasingly derangedSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA DirectorJohn Ratcliffeand the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of StaffGen. Dan Caine. Prior to the briefing, Rubio put forththe viewthat
“there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer high casualties.”
Israeli impulsiveness proved the heaviest of tails in wagging the dimmest of dogs.
This less than convincing explanationworriedVirginia DemocraticSenator Mark Warner,who serves as vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“This is still a war of choice that has been acknowledged by others that it was dictated by Israel’s goals and timeline.”
Source: Global Research
