[Peace-discuss] Critique of M. Klare and The Nation

[Brussel, Morton K]

I just can refrain from sending along this worthy polemic by Jason Hirthler. It discusses an article in The Nation by Michael  Klare regarding Iran and the nuclear negotiations. Here’s its conclusion

"In sum, what the article has left out are facts that would damn the Obama administration’s entire narrative about Iran, undermine the wholly illegal sanctions regime it has established, and expose the entirely unjust and cretinous nature of the negotiations themselves. That Iran has come to the table, obliquely validating the Western fairy tale, is little more than an exhibition of American power. As Iran acutely understands from watching the bonfire of its neighbors at Western hands, the U.S. can wreck your economy, assassinate your scientists, divide your allies, obliterate your cultural patrimony, topple your government, steal your most cherished resources, and leave you for dead. One can understand taking steps to avoid this fate, if they leave one’s sovereignty partially in tact and one’s borders untrammeled. What is harder to comprehend is the insatiable desire to visit these terrors on others. But that is the enigma of power, and why it turns narratives of peace into the sanguinary nightmares we so often see.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/15/accepting-the-narrative-of-power/
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