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In an Impotent World Even the Bankrupt Can Prevail

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan did not spend years preparing her public case and demonstrating her deployment of forces for the attack. Japan did not make a world issue out of her view that the United States was denying Japan her role in the Pacific by hindering Japan's access to raw materials and energy.

Similarly, when Adolf Hitler attacked Russia, he did not preface his invasion with endless threats and a public case that blamed the war on England.

These events happened before the PSYOPS era. Today, America and Israel's wars of aggression are preceded by years of propaganda and international meetings, so that by the time the attack comes it is an expected event, not a monstrous surprise attack with its connotation of naked aggression.

The United States, which has been threatening Iran with attack for years, has passed the job to Israel. During the third week of July, the American vice president and secretary of state gave Israel the go-ahead. Israel has made great public disclosure of its warships passing through the Suez Canal on their way to Iran. "Muslim" Egypt is complicit, offering no objection to Israel's naval forces on their way to a war crime under the Nuremberg standard that the United States imposed on the world.

By the time the attack occurs, it will be old hat, an expected event and, moreover, an event justified by years of propaganda asserting Iran's perfidy.

Israel intends to dominate the Middle East. Israel's goal is to incorporate all of Palestine and southern Lebanon into "Greater Israel." The United States intends to dominate the entire world, deciding who rules which countries and controlling resource flows.

The United States and Israel are likely to succeed because they have effective PSYOPS. For the most part, the world media follow the U.S. media, which follow the U.S. and Israeli governments' lines. Indeed, the American media are part of the PSYOPS of both countries.

According to Thierry Meyssan in the Swiss newspaper Zeit-Fragen, the CIA used SMS, or text messaging, and Twitter to spread disinformation about the Iranian election, including the false report that the Guardian Council had informed Mir-Hossein Mousavi that he had won the election. When the real results were announced, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election appeared to be fraudulent.

Iran's fate awaits it. A reasonable hypothesis to be entertained and examined is whether Iran's Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mousavi are in league with Washington to gain power in Iran. Both have lost out in the competition for government power in Iran. Yet, both are egotistical and ambitious. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 probably means nothing to them except an opportunity for personal power. The way the West has always controlled the Middle East is by purchasing the politicians who are out of power and backing them in overthrowing the independent government. We see this today in Sudan, as well.

In the case of Iran, there is an additional factor that might align Rafsanjani with Washington. President Ahmadinejad attacked former President Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most wealthy persons, as corrupt. If Rafsanjani feels threatened by this attack, he has little choice but to try to overthrow the existing government. This makes him the perfect person for Washington.

Perhaps there is a better explanation why Rafsanjani and Mousavi, two highly placed members of the Iranian elite, chose to persist in allegations of election fraud that have played into Washington's hands by calling into question the legitimacy of the Iranian government. It cannot be that the office of president is worth such costs, as the Iranian presidency is not endowed with decisive powers.

Without Rafsanjani and Mousavi, the U.S. media could not have orchestrated the Iranian elections as "stolen," an orchestration that the U.S. government used to further isolate and discredit the Iranian government, making it easier for Iran to be attacked. Normally, well-placed members of an elite do not help foreign enemies set their country up for attack.

An Israeli attack on Iran is likely to produce retaliation, which Washington will use to enter the conflict. Have the personal ambitions of Rafsanjani and Mousavi, and the naive, youthful upper-class Iranian protesters, set Iran up for destruction?

Consult a map, and you will see that Iran is surrounded by a dozen countries that host U.S. military bases. Why does anyone in Iran doubt that the nation is on her way to becoming another Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the end to be ruled by oil companies and an American puppet?

The Russians and Chinese are off-balance because of successful American interventions in their spheres of influence, uncertain of the threat and the response. Russia could have prevented the coming attack on Iran, but, pressured by Washington, Russia has not delivered the missile systems that Iran purchased. China suffers from her own hubris as a rising economic power and is about to lose her energy investments in Iran to U.S./Israeli aggression. China is funding America's wars of aggression with loans, and Russia is even helping the United States to set up a puppet state in Afghanistan, thus opening up former Soviet central Asia to U.S. hegemony.

The world is so impotent that even the bankrupt United States can launch a new war of aggression and have it accepted as a glorious act of liberation in behalf of women's rights, peace and democracy.

COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.


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  1. PCR makes a comprehensive case; I think it less than strong. Although he does not use the word "conspiracy," such is implied by his casting a worst-case scenario--based on current, volatile circumstances--and more or less assuming it will come to pass without any serious hitch or snag.

    I have often opined that the fundamental weakness in any conspiracy theory is the all-important competency factor among its participants. Given the deplorable quality of our 21st century "leaders" all around the world, the likelihood of any subgroup of them mounting a large-scale, disciplined, well-executed, conspiratorial and predictable undertaking is sketchy, at best.

    All that said, it's quite possible--yea inevitable--for this cast of incompetents to do a whole lot of damage. Just not likely that they can do it with the coordination and cooperation sufficient to bring about many of the disasters prognosticated by PCR et al.

  2. There's a respectable alternate theory that this election fiasco was a rolling coup by the Republican Guard. The élites appear to be split. Iranians are quite good at hatching their own conspiracies.

    No doubt the restless warmongers in DC and NY are trying to take advantage, but perhaps the conflict is mostly home-grown.

    The situation makes it harder for Obama to cut a deal with Tehran, which he should do, because the government there has no consensus behind it and is in bad odor here.

    That said, any military strike, US or Israeli with a US wink, would be a crime and probably a disaster.

  3. 1.Good is not good and bad is not bad-a liberal template. 2.We are supposed to feel nostalgic for the old days when America was run on a protestant paradigm but then PCR ridicules the descendants of this tradition as the stooges of the international Zionist conspiracy! In other words, PCR is completely incoherent. He has nothing to do with any form of conservatism. His main goal is to dishearten the traditional conservative operatives of any stripe in order to advance Obama's socialist agenda. Why Chronicles supports him is not clear.

  4. "In other words, PCR is completely incoherent."

    Wrong. Paul Roberts is a fine writer of clear prose. Your pitiful attempts are incoherent. Tell us, what is it that you're struggling so ineptly to say?

    Toddle back to FR, "jack bailey". That's where imbecilic, poorly punctuated scribblings such as yours can be appreciated by your fellow victims of the public schools. Here, you're only capable of embarassing yourself and annoying the grownups.

  5. So the World of Before had more gutsy style than this one. That much we all "progressed".
    What else changed?
    Don't forget to bomb Belgrade, Serbia/Yugoslavia/Balkans/Europe or whatever the name would be, at any time, in any context of "current world affairs".

  6. @3, 4 & 5: Let me reiterate my off-thread post from another thread on this site.

    "Being the first to disclaim any personal immunity to bad writing habits, I take this occasion to commend most who comment in these pages for thoughtful, well-constructed and effectively self-edited contributions.

    "Among other rhetorical assets, I appreciate these fundamentals: correct spelling and syntax; subject-verb agreement; well-organized subdivision into coherent paragraphs.

    "I have posted before my suggestion that, at the very least, any poster review and edit his comments before submitting. When the subject matter is particularly sensitive or potentially inflammatory, sleeping on one’s comments before submitting would be an extra measure of prudence. At the very least, submit nothing older than a second draft.

    "We all suffer in some measure when such care and precautions are not observed. As readers, we labor to get through what might indeed by a stellar contribution, were it not submitted in single-draft haste. As for writers who carelessly submit, they pay with damaged credibility.

    "Having paused for this 'public service announcement,' I now encourage all to resume the thread already started on PCR’s contribution, above.