Iran A More and More Viable Military Target

Posted October 2, 2007
Filed under: international, military, politics |

And yes, I see this as a problem. Iran’s president is not one of my favorite people, but attacking Iran would have a ridiculously great destabilizing effect upon the entire Middle East region. Seymour Hersh on today’s Democracy Now! went so far as to say that if we were to compare Iraq to Vietnam, an attack on Iran would be much worse than Cambodia. As he pointed out, the Vietnam war, as stupid and awful as it was, never went beyond the tactical boundaries of the conflict, whereas the wars in Iraq and the almost forgotten Afghanistan (we Americans have such short memories, it seems) have already had a strong largely negative impact upon the entire region. War with Iran would be much worse, drawing nearly the entire Middle East into the conflict including Pakistan and Israel.

In related news, a Pentagon official was quoted as saying, “I hate all Iranians.” Cute. And cuter still, the Democrat-run Senate OKed $150 billion in additional war funds. This goes to show that we Americans need to grow out of the dualistic view that the parties can be easily differentiated into “good” and “evil”, “right” and “wrong”, or even “peaceful” and “warlike”. It simply isn’t true! Neither of the two big parties is “good” or even “on our side”. They are purely self-serving. Learn that and integrate it into your own political reality. See today’s headlines on Democracy Now!

~ NG

4 comments so far

  1. kip on October 2, 2007

    I was with you till you mistaken called the Senate “Democrat-run”. You must not be very good in math. In order to be “Democrat-run” against Bush, we would need 60 Democrats in the Senate.

  2. hermeticalchemy on October 2, 2007

    You’re right. I appologize for the exaggeration on my part. Still, Democrats winning more seats in Congress was advertised as some sort of great moral and political victory, and my main point there is that Democrats really haven’t been much better than Republicans except insofar as the Democrats seem to be more cowardly about standing by the opinions they’ve been shouting since the tide of public opinion turned on the war.

  3. kip on October 2, 2007

    Sorry, looking back at my comment, I was a little harsh. Probably because all this war talk is making me a little crazy…

  4. hermeticalchemy on October 3, 2007

    I understand. :-)


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