[Peace-discuss] JFP 7/24: Roll-call Mulvaney; Dubai: Navy killing "murder"; CPJ/HRW Ecuador lies

[David Green]

2) Pentagon historian David Crist is concerned that the U.S. and Iran will blunder into "a war of miscalculation," writes Scott Shane in the New York Times. Crist has just published "The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran." While there has been much discussion of a conflict starting with an Israeli air campaign, Crist says it is at least as likely hostilities could begin with a maritime clash in the Persian Gulf between the U.S. and Iran that could begin with a misunderstanding. 

 
My punishment for being on the road is to listen to an interview of Crist by Terry Gross. The U.S. and Iran have a "history of mistrust." The will "blunder" into a "war of miscalculation."
 
These euphemisms avoid assigning responsibility to the U.S. for opposing Iran's self-determination, and its own rightful sphere of influence in the ME. It sounds like an informative book that predictably fails to tell the truth.
 
DG
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