Despite all the recent attention to a possible war with Iran, just about nobody has noticed that President Obama put forward a shocking new war-making policy
In his latest article, Tom Engelhardt explores Obama’s extreme position that one-ups Dick Cheney’s radical “1% Doctrine.” Call it the 0% Doctrine. The president insisted he would take the U.S. to war not to stop another nation from attacking us or even threatening to do so, but simply to stop it from building a nuclear weapon — and he would act even if that country were incapable of targeting the United States. That should have been news. Now it is. Read it here.
Iranian military personnel participate in the Velayat-90 war game in unknown location near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran, December 30, 2011.
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An Iranian girl carries an anti-U.S. placard bearing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama during a funeral for Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, who was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran on January 11, in Tehran January 13, 2012. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
Iranian women ninjas. Yes, you read that right. See a segment from Press TV on Iran’s female ninjas or “kunoichi.”
“All of a sudden, the Strait of Hormuz has become the most combustible spot on the planet, the most likely place to witness a major conflict between well-armed adversaries. Why, of all locales, has it become so explosive?”
Michael Klare, author of the upcoming book The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources explains why.
photo: An F/A-18C Hornet aircraft launches off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while in the Arabian Sea. DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kenneth Abbate, U.S. Navy.
“All of a sudden, the Strait of Hormuz has become the most combustible spot on the planet, the most likely place to witness a major conflict between well-armed adversaries. Why, of all locales, has it become so explosive?”
Michael Klare, author of the upcoming book The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources explains why.
photo: An F/A-18C Hornet aircraft launches off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while in the Arabian Sea. DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kenneth Abbate, U.S. Navy.
All of a sudden, the Strait of Hormuz has become the most combustible spot on the planet, the most likely place to witness a major conflict between well-armed adversaries. Why, of all locales, has it become so explosive?
What if you reversed everything the United States does in regard to Iran? Tom Engelhardt did. He writes:
Imagine that, in late 2007, Iran’s ruling mullahs and their military advisors had decided to upgrade already significant covert activities against Washington, including cross-border operations, and so launched an intensification of its secret campaign to “destabilize” the country’s leadership — call it a covert war if you will — funded by hundreds of millions of dollars of oil money; that they (or their allies) supported armed oppositional groups hostile to Washington; that they flew advanced robot drones on surveillance missions in the country’s airspace; that they imposed ever escalating sanctions, which over the years caused increased suffering among the American people, in order to force Washington to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and give up the nuclear program (military and peaceful) that it had been pursuing since 1943; that they and an ally developed and launched a computer worm meant to destroy American centrifuges and introduced sabotaged parts into its nuclear supply chain; that they encouraged American nuclear scientists to defect; that one of their allies launched an assassination program against American nuclear scientists and engineers killing five of them on the streets of American cities; that they launched a global campaign to force the world not to buy key American products, including Hollywood movies, iPhones, iPods, and iPads, and weaponry of any sort by essentially embargoing American banking transactions.
