06-08-2010, 07:55 AM
Peter Dawson Wrote:Daniel Pipes is a walking, talking, zionist wet-dream. The only trouble with that being a lot of his most fanciful dreams have come true in the last 10 years.A lot of perceptive stuff there Peter - and you may well be right about 'attack Iran' as a smoke screen. The thing is these things can take on a life of there own.
Israel would at least want their new missile shield installed before anyone attacked Iran, because unless they obliterate Iran's military (a job only the US could do) there will be missiles headed towards Israel, which will have negative domestic PR consequences in Israel, so I don't think there's any chance that they or the US will attack any time soon. Then there's the question of whether/how well the missile shield would work in practice.
I'm still leaning heavily towards looking at the "attack Iran" talk as a rhetorical device to keep people's attention away from all the mundane atrocities the US & co. get away with on a daily basis. The best way to stop people questioning whether the West has just committed big war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq is to seriously propose that the most moral thing to do next would be to attack yet another, third country, for same reasons you attacked the first two.
All this isn't to say that Israel wouldn't be interested in straightening out the situation in Turkey to their advantage.
I have reservations about Webster Tarpley but his latest missive in Global Research 'Obama is preparing to attack Iran' is thought provoking (as always). Also, there's a recent RT interview with Michael Chussodovsky in which he opines that an Israeli attack could not take place without US/NATO sanction, but that, on the balance of probability, an attack WILL happen following manufacture of a credible cassus belli. There are a whole raft of things pushing almost inexorably in the direction of an attack and the stuff coming out of the US Congress is hardly designed to cool the issue either.
As for Pipes - here is my WikiSpooks page on him - by all means add to it/edit it or otherwise chop it about.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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