Who else but Stanford University's staunchly neoconservative Hoover Institution fellow pundit Victor Davis Hanson to grasp a proverbial stick and beat the dead horse...
Thursday March 1
America should attend regional talks that may include Syria and Iran, in support of stabilizing the democracy in Iraq.
But the United States should not negotiate directly with these terrorist states until they cooperate with ongoing United Nations investigations and cease trying to destroy neighboring democracies.
Excuse me. Neglected to mention Lebanon and Palestine, not to mention the fact both have been mercilessly attacked that have cost lives and billions in damaged infrastructure.
Syria has engaged in serial assassination in Lebanon to overturn that constitutional government. It blocks U.N. inquiries into the murders of prominent Lebanese. And Syrian money and agents foment unrest in democratic Iraq, even as they seek to aid Hamas in attacking democratic Israel.
Strange, I suppose the Mossad carried out the job to eliminate Lebanese targets to cause the strife for a geostrategic advantage.
Iranian theocracy violates international non-proliferation accords. Its president has promised to wipe Israel off the map. In chilling fashion, Iran has hosted an international conference to deny the Holocaust, as if proof were needed that its threats derive from an existential hatred of the Jewish state.
Bullshit. Iran abide by NPT on the strictest term despite the unreasonably intense international pressure at the behest of U.S. and Israel.
Mr Ahmadinejad never called for 'wiping Israel off the map'. That's a media myth arising out of mistranslation[1]. He meant "this [Zionist] regime must vanish in the page of time".
Iran conference on the Holocaust is about examining the truth in unchallenged free speech and expose the exaggeration & deception perpetrated by the specific faction that seek to brainwash the unsuspecting & ignorant public with continuous showboating of racially situated pity & cacophonous propaganda.
Like Syria, Iran wants to end the democratic experiment in Iraq. Iranian money, weapons and expertise are used by terrorists in kill Americans in Iraq, and through Hamas to disrupt Palestinian peace efforts. Hezbollah, a group also backed by Iran and Syria, seeks to destabilize Lebanese democracy and restart a border war with Israel.
No further word can be said about the display of utter ignorance by self-deception or at the very least flat-out lying above.
Such aggression is not symptomatic, as is often asserted, of confident regimes on the rise. Iranian oil production is declining. Billions in food and fuel subsidies are proving unsustainable, and scarce funds are siphoned off to foreign terrorists and nuclear proliferation. Beset by unsound economies and rising domestic unpopularity, the Iranian theocracy and Syrian dictatorship have become pariahs at odds with European diplomats, other Arab states and the United Nations.
Apparently Israel and the Imperial West (US, UK, Canada, what else) consider themselves above the law while bullying to strong-arm the other nations by diplomatic pressure with threats of sanction & physical force to agree to their desires that consist of selfish, avaricious, vainglorious & shamelessly double-faced attitude.
Power is too much at stake for the "power players" not to allow the sovereign nations to emerge as the new geopolitical/economic players.
It's like deciding the battle of taunts and fists to determine who gets to dominate the sizable playground in the noon recess.
Only the continued American policy of ostracizing Iran and Syria, galvanizing the international community to enforce U.N. compliance, supporting Iranian and Syrian reformers, and keeping a high-profile military presence in the area offers any hope that either nation will cease their subversion.
What subversion, to be precise? U.N. compliance that Israel always ignore with puppet U.S. veto power when called upon to change its aggressive-like-a-rabid-dog behavior?
The alleged link between Iraqi insurgency and Iranian Revolutionary Guard is horseshit. A fable conjured up by the demented minds from one of the imperialist zio-neocon think tanks (there are numerous), or maybe the Pentagon war hawks want a fresh start to run the "bomb 'em for the hell of it" campaign utilizing the prompt-upon-command expedition of naval and air force parcels.
The neocon Zionist-influenced Imperial West's constant interference with Middle East/Central Asia affairs only fuel resentment -- and that is why the people of Iran elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an unprecedented landslide.
Iran and Syria have a joint military pact and they full know it's enormous risk to "interfere" with Imperial West's meddling in the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq. Unless, of course, either nation's sovereignty is intentionally violated by external force, which they will respond with swift & fierce force that may be brutally effective in repelling the invading enemy depending on expertise.
We need to keep the pressure up - without bombing, without bombast and without talking directly with these rogue and increasingly desperate states that have caused themselves and the world so much trouble.
And yet U.S. continue to reject diplomatic talk with Syria & Iran? Who are the U.S. officials listening to?
You guessed it, Israel. Factor in the strategic advantage of non-renewable energy as well as upholding the (weakening) petrodollar hegemony and the crisis is about to blow its lid off upon reaching the boiling point in the geopolitical pivots of perpetual warfare & colonial footholds that give the people of certain nations frustration and anguish. It only pour the gas on the fire of virulent anti-Americanism, not just in a specific region but also global.
It's a matter of servile self-interest for the sole economic-power-hungry global superpower with the insanely grinning Zionist dwarf sitting on the shoulder of Uncle Sam steely holding the dark pair of sunglasses on the big man's eyesight to guide Uncle Sam on the path of permanent alliance towards who knows what. Like the "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" movie character Master Blaster.