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

[Karen Aram]

A fan of both Parsi and Ford, I choose Ford’s article over Parsi’s in Foreign Policy. I would suggest:

“But war provocations of Iran/Russia/China are what the “Obama-Clinton” holdovers  (including Pentagoners & spooks) are pressing Trump for.”gives the impression only the Democrats are behind US wars, it should be clarified that both Party’s are responsible. Therefore I would change it to  “Bush-Obama wars,” or “Bush Cheney, Obama Clinton wars,” to be clear and accurate.

Any assumption that either Party might stop or prevent further wars is wrong, we need to end the false narrative of Democrats vs. Republicans. They are both responsible for war, using different strategies. All Presidents acquiesce to the “powers that be.”


On Jul 30, 2017, at 17:12, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

See Glen Ford’s column: <https://blackagendareport.com/trump_faces_down_cia>.

Trump will rattle sabres at Iran, but I think that’s primarily to keep the war party off  his back.

That crazed Democrat-neocon-Pentagoners-spook combine insists he continue the Obama-Clinton war provocations against Iran/Russia/China.

He should be encouraged to resist - as he apparently is in Syria.

But an empire in relative decline may prefer to kill people to show it’s serious:

<https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201707291055991504-us-russia-sanctions-germany-trump/>.

—CGE


On Jul 30, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto: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/

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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