[Peace-discuss] Trita Parsi: "The Mask Is Off: Trump Is Seeking War With Iran"

[C G Estabrook]

This may be true, but there is clearly another possibility, suggested by the astute Glen Ford: <https://blackagendareport.com/trump_faces_down_cia <https://blackagendareport.com/trump_faces_down_cia>>.

We should encourage the latter, and not acquiesce in the War Party’s excoriation of the Trump administration - with the WP's duplicitous ‘Russiagate.’ 

Clearly our demand should be for the withdrawal of US troops (and weapons) - and the CIA - and the cessation of intervention.

That was what Trump proposed in the campaign, and what his suppression of the CIA activities in Syria (if they obey) suggests. 

But war provocations of Iran/Russia/China are what the Obama-Clinton holdovers  (including Pentagoners & spooks) are pressing Trump for.

Trump should be encouraged, publicly, to resist them. —CGE

 
> On Jul 30, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Robert Naiman for pointing out this article from Trita Parsi:
> 
>      http://lobelog.com/the-mask-is-off-trump-is-seeking-war-with-iran/ <http://lobelog.com/the-mask-is-off-trump-is-seeking-war-with-iran/>
> 
> It opens well:
> Something extraordinary has happened in Washington. President Donald Trump has made it clear, in no uncertain terms and with no effort to disguise his duplicity, that he will claim that Tehran is cheating on the nuclear deal by October—the facts be damned. In short, the fix is in. Trump will refuse to accept that Iran is in compliance and thereby set the stage for a military confrontation. His advisors have even been kind enough to explain how they will go about this. Rarely has a sinister plan to destroy an arms control agreement and pave the way for war been so openly telegraphed.
> and closes optimistically (I could wish to be as confident as this):
> [...]
> by revealing his hand, Trump has displayed his duplicity for all to see. That includes the American public, whose anti-war sentiments remain strong and are a key reason they supported the nuclear deal in the first place.
> 
> The American public knows the Iraq playbook quite well. Trump’s own supporters remain enraged by the disastrous war with Iraq. They know how they got played. It’s difficult to imagine why they would allow themselves to get played again by a president who has left little doubt about his intent to deceive.
> 
> Anyway I think this could be a good basis for next Saturday's demonstration flyer, unless someone has a better idea.
> 
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