Cups Of Blood
There comes a point when you have to seriously wonder why the need for convolution is required when it comes to confronting Iran. The United States has made it very clear, in numerous ways, that it has intentions with regards to Iran, so why not simply pull the trigger?
Iran is a member of President Bush’s illustrious ‘Axis Of Evil’, a state sponsor of terrorism, etc.
The US has used Iran’s nuclear program as a center piece for their condemnation of the country and its goals.
They have long since accused Iran of aiding Shi’ite militias in Iraq.
US naval groups have been conducting non combat operations just outside of Iranian waters for some time, obviously hoping to provoke some kind of incident.
The Bush administration has been advising and arming Pakistani militant groups along the Iranian border that have been linked to activities within Iran.
And lastly, they have recently launched a campaign aimed at placing Iranian arms in the hands of the Taliban and insurgents in Iraq.
Besides these obvious things, there is probably little doubt that US entities have been active within Iran itself, be it to influence and advise anti-government groups, or to reconnoiter various target locations.
So why the show? Because the invasion of Iraq was a farce and that to attack Iran you need an iron clad lie to justify it? If it is your intention, under the guise of delivering freedom to a country that in 1953 you helped take it away from, why not just cut the shit and get on with it?
Allow Mr. Cheney and his cabal their cups of blood. And in doing so, make no mistake that any attack on Iran will have immense regional consequences. Allow the K Street Think Tank masterminds to continue to believe that by launching air strikes against Iran that that segment of the Iranian population that does not support Mr. Ahmadinejad’s government will be running through the streets, flowers in their hair, as the missiles fall. Allow them to completely overlook the fact that by attacking Iran, in whatever capacity, it will most probably galvanize support for its government and turn an idiotic exercise of Western arrogance into the production of a force that will make the insurgency in Iraq look like a pre-school, post nap, arts and crafts affair.
In fact, why not compound matters further and allow the Israelis to get in on it? After all, they’ve been chomping at the bit for years now. And in doing so, watch the divisions in the Middle East melt away and, given a common purpose, embark on a region-wide campaign of counterpoint.
Then, Mr. Cheney, you will have your war. And the American flag draped coffins that it will produce will be too many to transport back to the United States by air. You’ll have to start putting them in shipping containers. And ultimately, what will it matter? You will have created such a disaster for the administration to follow that they will be like flies glued to paper.
As for terrorism, which has not realistically reached US shores since 9/11, well, you can probably expect a realistic rise in that as well. And I’m sure that’s all to the good when it comes to ensuring that the groundwork of fear laid over the last 7 years remains intact. Of course, were something to occur, you will not be blamed, the ‘evil doers’ will be, despite the fact that you provided them ample justification.
The longer horseshit like this is tolerated, the more 9/11 becomes realistic in its purpose and intent. The people of the United States, along with others abroad and right here at home, need to get their heads out of their asses and start looking at the realities of all of this blustering. Because unlike Iraq, there will be no easy week’s drive to Tehran. It will be a road littered with dead bodies. And if the campaign remains in the air, as cowards seem to prefer when it comes to dealing with such things, then are we to expect the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons if things get out of hand? At what point is too far, too far?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, those cooler heads advising President Kennedy knew only too well the chain of events that invading Cuba would produce. In doing so, the Soviets would have most likely moved on West Berlin, a move that would have constituted an act of aggression against NATO, placing the US in a position to counter that move, resulting in the whole world having gone to shit.
People around here had better be more than prepared to begin confronting the realities of the violence and devastation that is being wrought a world away. Maybe it would be a good thing for us to get a taste so that we might actually have some first hand experience in what it truly entails. Personally, I am sick and tired of arm chair quarterbacks pontificating on the need to further promote slaughter with the safety of an ocean between them and it.
If slaughter, cloaked in freedom, is what you’re after. You had better go and get a gun and be prepared to attach yourself to the lie complete.
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June 14th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I am visiting my neices and nephews in Seattle at the moment, and every time I see them smile, scream, pout, and play I feel both happiness and sorrow….
We are half a world away from the war and suffering, but it feels like we are a world away from eachother, taking from one child just to give to ours….
June 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Looks like innocent Iranian lives are dependent upon the clock running down before that bastard is out of the vice presidency.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I think it’s hard for people to feel sympathetic towards those that don’t affect them. Many in the West still don’t realize that what happens thousands of miles away will eventually affect their lives. remember watching a Detroit news station once and they were covering a plane crash… The thing they concentrated on the most was the Detroit connection, the one person from Detroit who was on the flight… Like the other people that died didn’t count. I even find myself some days so involved in what is happening around me that I forget the rest of the world. Our view of the world has truly become near sighted.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
[quote comment="16123"]I think it’s hard for people to feel sympathetic towards those that don’t affect them. Many in the West still don’t realize that what happens thousands of miles away will eventually affect their lives.[/quote]
It amazes me to watch people in Canada wonder why the cost of living is skyrocketing while the nation that owns our economy becomes an Empire of Debt
No one is ever going to ask a Canadian for money to blow up Iraq, they ask the people who supply our goods and services and then those people raise their prices. You don’t support the war? Then don’t spend money that will spiral back to America. Good luck with that.
June 14th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Who is America? Yes, Samar, we can’t sympathize because our plate is too full of second and third helpings of ethnocentric scrapple….
Americans don’t know their own bloody history in regard to the coup d’ etats and regime changes our tax $$$ have engendered…I recommend “Economic Hit Men” by John Perkins to any American (or friendly Canadien for dat matter :)
How dare this administration–with leftover lackeys from the detritus of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush I–unsheath the hubris to name an “Axis of Evil”. And to speak of nuclear options….absofreakinglutely insane.
And, since this is a (supposed) Democracy~a government OF the people, BY the people….we are complicit.
“It would be easier to roll up the entire sky into a small cloth
than it would be to obtain true happiness without knowing the Self.” ~Upanishads
June 14th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
the sad reality of western culture is that we’re oblivious to our political surroundings. and among other things, that will be a large contribution to western civilization’s downfall. is it not a very large problem when most of the population is worried about something trivial like paris hilton getting out of jail, rather than whether or not their government is sending them down another long and endless road into war?
June 14th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Iraq, Iran, Turkey. Each alone couldn’t easily “win” a war against the US, but none would easily “lose” either. Picking a fight with all three is ludicrous.
The lack of empathy and compassion for foreign deaths aside, the strategy of volunteering to play the role of common enemy to multiple enemies doesn’t make any sense to me.
June 14th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
[quote post="1133"]People around here had better be more than prepared to begin confronting the realities of the violence and devastation that is being wrought a world away. Maybe it would be a good thing for us to get a taste so that we might actually have some first hand experience in what it truly entails. Personally, I am sick and tired of arm chair quarterbacks pontificating on the need to further promote slaughter with the safety of an ocean between them and it.[/quote]
i agree-
and at the same time am saddened that i live in a country that i love-
but where many would probably view the statements above as “evil”-
and have no problem labeling them as such.
here’s what i consider evil…
for anyone to be so ungrateful for the gift of conscious existence-
most especially those who are lucky enough to be born into a society
that provides almost unlimited freedom and individual choice-
to be both ignorant of that, and worse-
want and choose to engage in action that surely is the opposite of that-
and in doing so, deprive others of the same life and opportunities we prize.
as mentioned before, maybe-
perhaps some sarcastic and well-meaning celebrity might introduce “freedom credits”-
where we could offset the lack of appreciation for how good we have it-
by trading dollars in exchange for the liberty that others don’t dare to even dream of-
let alone have a chance to attain.
cost of the iraq war = blood, hate, death (and $)
not to make the same mistake (or worse), again = priceless
vincent, in buffalo
http://www.basicmagic.com
June 14th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
wow
you are WORKED. UP. today.
more so than usual even.
wow.
love mope.
June 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
word.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
The entries are always great Matt, but every now and then you really come through with a moment of brilliance, of pure articulation. The sarcasm just makes it even better.