[Peace-discuss] Maybe he has gone nuts

[C. G. Estabrook]

I rather regret the subject line.  It's too tempting to explain American foreign 
policy in terms of a president's psychopathology, but that would be
to accept an important aspect of the American elite's ability to pursue its own 
interests: they don't want us to notice that they're doing it.

Those interests, economic and geopolitical, are what the the executive committee 
of the bourgeoisie are after. Our task is to understand why they dictate such 
frenzied hostility to Iran.

Some of it is that Iran has never been forgiven for not following orders in 
1979. Much of the rest is fear that Iran will slip into the Asian energy grid, 
dominated by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and thereby leave a 
tremendous hole right in the middle of American domination of the Mideast.

On 4/3/10 9:46 PM, John W. wrote:
> This all sounds like deja vu all over again.  I hope our discerning fellow
> American citizens don't fall for it yet again.  ;-)
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:44 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>
> Obama Claims ‘All Evidence’ Supports Allegations Iran Developing Nukes
> Doesn't Detail Any of this 'Evidence' by Jason Ditz, April 02, 2010
>
> Speaking today in an interview broadcast on CBS, President Barack Obama
> alleged that “all the evidence” available to him showed that Iran’s civilian
> nuclear program was secretly aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
>
> The claim was just the latest in a long line of similar allegations by the
> Obama Administration and, as with the previous claims, did not come with any
> details on what all this evidence was, nor any explanation for why all the
> evidence available to the American public, up to and including the most
> recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, points in exactly the opposite
> direction.
>
> Indeed, less than two months ago Obama’s own spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed
> Iran didn’t even have the ability to enrich uranium beyond 20 percent, let
> alone to rich to weapons grade, which would be above 90 percent. Just days
> after Gibbs made this statement he insisted that the US would not rule out
> attacking Iran.
>
> In addition to the usual unsourced allegations, President Obama reiterated
> the repeated false claims from the State Department that the international
> community was “unified” against Iran, a claim which flies in the face of
> opposition to the US position by China, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, and other UN
> Security Council members.
>
> http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/02/obama-claims-all-evidence-supports-allegations-iran-developing-nukes/
>

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