The drone missile killing of Iran's top fanatic terrorist was reported first perhaps, by the BBC last night with several other networks following along in the usual feeding frenzy to treat the story from one biased perspective or another. Democrats of course lined up at NBC, CNN, U.S.A. Today and other party organs to spin the sudden trophy quality demise of the head of the
Quds force of snake-head biters from a view pro or antipathetic to the Trump
administration action.
I wasn't going to say anything about the military action, yet listening to the coverage thought it might be useful to make an objective opinion. The administration's action will drive up the price of oil and be of service to various red states' government's revenue streams.
I wasn't going to say anything about the military action, yet listening to the coverage thought it might be useful to make an objective opinion. The administration's action will drive up the price of oil and be of service to various red states' government's revenue streams.
The decision of an Iranian
general to visit Iraq and coordinate a proxy attack on the U.S. Embassy in
Baghdad was breath-takingly dumb of course. He may have felt that Iraq was
already in-the-bag for Iranian hegemonic ambitions.
It is worth remembering that it
was the Eisenhower administration that started the Iranian-American problems
when it sponsored a coup to get rid of the democratic government and install an
Emperor. The Emperor's secret police force tortured or stalked Iranians around
the globe and he was a tool of the United States. The Shah also had goals to
rule the Middle East not unlike those of the silly Shi'a leadership of
Iran.
Though the original sin of the
coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh occurred in 1953 and a lot of water and
hate has passed under the historical bridge since, when U.S. policy makers
think about Iran they should be aware that the United States started the
popular conflict and as a leading dance partner it should also be the one to
end it. Ending the conflict may be difficult because of the idiocy of the
broadcast media that reports what other people do and follows up with a
politically correct narrative to reinforce their position; they usually have
wrong points of view on numerous topics and politicians tend to reinforce the
idiocy.
Before the Shah Iran had
brought in an American economic adviser and the bi-lateral relations were
actually good. Then Iran nationalized the oil fields that were effectively
owned by the British in order to get some of the profit too- that was the way
people renegotiated contracts or agreements in the era, and the Eisenhower
administration worried about the domino theory prevalent in the 1950s regarding
communism pre-emptively intervened with the coup to nip their fear of a
communist takeover in the bud. That policy decision is still costing the United
States today and may cost even more in the future.
With a radicalized Iran
(paradoxically it was western leftists who supported the Iranian revolution to
get rid of the Shaw before Ayatollah Khomeini took power and swiftly purged the
left) it may be challenging to end the conflict in a peaceable way though that
is highly desirable. Iran should lose its nuclear weapons program. The United
States hasn't any need for anything in the ancient nation-kingdom against peace
since Iran is way off the mainstream course of modern trade and commerce; it
hasn't got good Pacific, Atlantic or even Mediterranean waterfront property.
Iran's oil is also a declining commodity with the major automakers moving full
ahead into electric cars and physicists developing better batteries, solar
panels, super conductors and a wealth of micro-circuit technology.
Though it was a good idea to
end the activities of General Soleimani it would be a better thing to find
some way to normalize relations with the anti-communist Iranian Muslim
Republic.
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