Re: Finian Cunningham: Trump’s Annihilation Threat to Iran and WWI Déjà Vu Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 23, 2019, 1:43 am, in reply to "Re: Finian Cunningham: Trump’s Annihilation Threat to Iran and WWI Déjà Vu"
I think Cunningham is basically saying the same thing. In the second half of the article not reproduced in Ken's post, he writes What made the violence inevitable was the configuration of military forces and international tensions had been put in place over several years like a powder keg. One spark – the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 – led to a chain reaction of disaster. That’s why vows from this American president that he doesn’t want war are rather disconcerting. The complacency is alarming. The Trump administration has done everything possible to lay down an explosive fuse in the Persian Gulf. From trashing the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, to ratcheting up economic terrorism through illegal sanctions, from sending aircraft carrier naval armada and B-52 bombers, to hinting at nuclear annihilation. Washington is fully culpable for the explosive configuration. For Trump and other American politicians to talk about “not wanting war” is ludicrous naivety or duplicity. Otoh, I think this is a bit misleading: ...assurances last week from President Trump and his top diplomat Mike Pompeo that the US “is not fundamentally seeking a war with Iran” are not in fact all that reassuring. Neither, it must be said, are assurances from the Iranian leadership that they also do not want war with the US. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said there was “no appetite for war”. Of course Iran doesn't want war with the US...they're not idiots. He puts these two sentences together as if there were two equally duplicitous and warmongering leaders, both of whom are lying about not wanting war. That's not true. There is an aggressor and there is its intended victim. One has no appetite for war, the other does. It's pretty straightforward which is which.
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