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As I described in a previous entry here concerning Iran, the war mongering neocons in the United States and Israel believe the time to attack Iran is coming up against some deadlines. The Bush/Cheney regime is over in just one month. The CBS News video clip above, Israel Rehearses Iran Attack, was published six months ago.
National Security Correspondent David Martin ends his short Pentagon report with these ominous words:
The following interview with PNAC neocon and Bush's controversial appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, was conducted during the Republican National Convention, three months ago.
While John Bolton is no longer actively serving as Ambassador to anything currently, he certainly can speak as an authority on the mindset of the neocons still in the U.S. government. This interview entitled, Bolton Suggests Israel Will Attack Iran, illustrates some of the beliefs and talking points of the neocons if one listens carefully to Bolton lying through his moustache. He is a professional provocateur.
Other pundits seem to think that the time has passed for any Israeli or U.S. attack on Iran. Daniel Levy of Prospects for Peace and The Century Foundation spoke with columnist and author David Frum about this topic on Bloggingheads.tv after the U.S. elections in October. In this short clip of a much longer interview, Frum suggests that "there is no possibility of an attack on Iran." However, Daniel Levy doesn't simply suggest that all is right with the world just because Barack Obama will take the reigns of U.S. power next month. In a recent article published in Haaretz, Levy opines that the next president will face four foreign policy crises in the Middle East when he takes office. While I understand that Levy is writing for an Israeli readership, I might just point out that Levy didn't bother to include Iraq and Afghanistan in his list. It's not as if those two conflicts are somehow finished and our U.S. military commitments over, after all. Clearly, after 8 years of the Bush/Cheney reign of terror, many people on our Pathetic Little Spinning Ball Of Mud Called Earth® will breathe a collective sigh of relief when the new U.S. President is inaugurated next month. Obama will certainly have his work cut out for him, that much I do know.
Is it possible for Obama to get the United States out of the corner into which Bushworld has painted us? Many pundits think that simply removing the past cowboy hubris and diplomatic obstinance might be a starting point for the next administration. The diavlog video clip above between Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton and Stephen Walt of Harvard is a discussion of the foreign policy issues concerning Iran, Israel, nuclear proliferation, energy security and terrorism. It's well worth your time to view it. It's about 12 minutes long. I certainly look forward hopefully to a more positive world. I'm also cautious about getting my hopes up too high or counting my chickens before they are hatched. Even in this electronic age, military tactics favor offensive strikes during a new moon as it offers the most darkness. There is just one new moon left (on December 27th) until Obama takes office. Personally, I'm waiting to exhale. At least I'm not as pessimistic as when my great uncle once told me that "there will never be peace in our world as long as two men are still alive." I hope he is just wrong. Happy Holidaze. Merry Mayonnaise.
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| Sinja December 23, 2008 09:04 PM PST  I really hope that Israel doesn't attack Iran. I think that if something happens, it will be more of Israel's doing than ours, but that whole "tough because the big guy is in your corner" thing will probably be a big part of it. Hopefully, though, the rest of the world sees the upcoming opportunites for change in America, just as most of us do, and don't plan on acting up because of it. | ||
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| Custom Term papers December 18, 2009 02:06 AM PST  Very nice write up. Easy to understand and straight to the point. It’s great to see good information being shared. | ||
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