QuaziMoto

Every great nation needs an enemy.

Every advantage delivered by a vast and ever growing military must have a purpose.

With Iraq occupied, Afghanistan maimed, N. Korea “disarmed” and partners being made of China, Saudi Arabia and every other hostile (but commercial) marketplace, that clearly leaves us with no alternative besides Iran.

Population: 65 Million

GDP: $287 Billion (US is $13.8 Trillion)

Military Personnel: 345,000 active (US is 1.2 Million)

Navy: none to speak of

Airforce: none to speak of

The United States Military budget in 2007 was twice the amount of Iran’s entire GDP yet somehow between Isreals might and Americans might, this small weak nation is a “threat”.

To be sure Iran seeks to influence activities within its sphere of influence no different than the Arab conquest of the middle east, no different than American and Soviet activities globally. China does the same with Tibet and its neighbors. And no doubt Iran like every other nation has ideological principles that it wishes to extend much like Americans never ending mantra of “Democracy” (translation: open markets, access to your natural resources and capitalism)

Iran may support a few idealogical organizations in the middle east but how does that even begin to compare to the endless number of dictatorships and tyrannies that are supported around the world by the United States? Cmon.

What we have here is a well oiled propaganda machine that justifies its brawn by making monsters out of mosquitoes.

Besides a litany of sabre rattling by a few powerless politicians what has Iran actually done to anyone? Who has it attacked?

I’ve never heard of Iran attacking anyone with its weak and nearly obsolete military. The only thing i hear is the BBC and American media outlets tagging “backed by Iran” to every mention of Hamas or Hizbollah but where is the proof? Where is the smoking gun? There isnt any and you will never see any. What you will see however, is the slow and meticulous demonization of Iran layed out as the groundwork to find some provocation (usually faked) as a cause for agression.

Are we to going to be dragged into another useless and expensive war by the propagandists and chicken hawks?

For a country that talks about wanting peace so much we sure have a knack for creating and sustaining endless amounts of war.

http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_history_events

I watched two episodes of Carrier last night on PBS which I found very entertaining and enlightening at the same time. Not to be sidetracked however, in the final episode when one of the commanders of the Nimitz battle ship sums up the accomplishments of the mission he describes the Nimitz as operating in the “Arabian Gulf”. This struck me as odd. The Arabian Gulf? Where the heck is that?

Turns out in a concerted effort rewrite history and geography of the region.

Clearly this is an effort to respect and reinforce Arab world views over the interests of Iran but who exactly benefits from such an alliance? One could argue that Arab nationalism and the expansion of Arab and Islamic fundamentalism that is born and bred in the heart of the Arab world is exactly the reason we’re in the Middle East fighting multiple wars to begin with. Further pandering to the Arab world while antagonizing Iran seems to continue this downward spiral.

What if Russia or China began referring to the United States as Northern Mexico or Southern Canada for that matter. What impact would that have on the psyche of average Americans? This is truly insulting and not just to 65 million Iranians but to the world at large that continues to see examples of U.S. foreign policy sending a big F.U. in its direction.

Well those weren’t exactly the words that Clinton used to describe her response to any theoretical attack by Iran upon Israel but it does, nonetheless, raise some interesting questions like:

Why would Israel need the to U.S. to respond to any theoretical attack by Iran? Last I heard, Israel was more than capable of defending itself and delivering swift justice to the extent that it can pretty much kick all of the Middle Easts ass in one fell swoop if it chooses to.

Perhaps she assumes that at the stage where the U.S. would respond that Israel along with its Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian neighbors are already destroyed or devastated in which case what would be the purpose of a retaliatory attack be? Punishment?

Why would Iran nuke Israel when the same strike would destroy not only the holy land but the people and surrounding communities that it agitates should populate it? It just doesn’t make any sense and to suggest that Iranians are suicidal, ignorant or illogical. That thesis just wouldn’t be supported by any historical rendering of the facts. Theres almost unanimous concent that Iran has been very shrewd and calculating in its activities from the get go.

Here you have a situation where the U.S (and the world) complains about inflammatory comments by Iran’s powerless figurehead of a president to “Wipe Israel off the map” and an American presidential candidate (who could actually have that power) making the same type of comments to her internal audience.

I don’t think I’m alone in seeing the irony in this one.

Lets also not forget that Hamas makes similar comments about Israel and Israel makes the same kinds of comments about ‘the terrorists’ and on and on.

The U.S wages low level proxy wars in many countries around the world. Funding, training, arming our allies who share our interests to fight against those that have their own self-interest in mind. Iran, Russia, China and many other countries do the same but for some reason this is unacceptable when others do it and in turn Hillary ratchets up the stakes by threatening to kill 47 million Iranians should these proxy wars escalate!

I wonder how much support Hamas receives from Iran compared to say…how much Columbia gets from the U.S. to fight Columbian nationalists? Or how about Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and on and on..

I guess everyone has spent their supply of outrage on Jimmy Carters visit to Hamas.

History doesn’t support the world view forwarded by candidates and politicians like Hillary Clinton. Iran has not attacked any country that I am aware but instead participates in these low grade proxy wars against countries that dont share its interests (just like everyone else). There is no reason to believe that Iran has the interest or desire to attack Israel in what would be a suicide mission.

No one needs Hillary Clinton escalating tensions beyond the levels they are already at. In fact we need to promote politicians that find constructive solutions in order to de-escalate existing animosities and tension.