Guest Post by Tom Luongo
John Bolton never met a war he didn’t like, except Vietnam. That would be the one he refused to fight in.
Today he is calling up every marker he has to create the narrative for a legal justification for an attack on Iran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spilled the beans on just before the Warsaw Stink Fest last week.
This morning GOP House Organ the Washington Times produced this howler of an exclusive to say that al-Qaeda groups in Syria are getting Double Ultra Secret funding from, guess who?
Iran. Because nothing says team-up like conservative Shia clerics and Salafist Sunni head-chopping animals, right?
Iran is providing high-level al Qaeda operatives with a clandestine sanctuary to funnel fighters, money and weapons across the Middle East, according to Trump administration officials who warn that the long-elusive, complex relationship between two avowed enemies of America has evolved into an unacceptable global security threat.
With the once-prominent Islamic State receding from the spotlight, The Washington Times has learned that the administration is focusing increasingly on the unlikely alliance between Iran and al Qaeda, with what some sources say is an eye toward establishing a potential legal justification for military strikes against Iran or its proxies.
Note: all of those links are simple internal links to Washington Post article categories for SEO purposes. There are no actual sources, only the illusion of sources.
The only people saying this are the ones in the administration and their pet think tankers who provide the same level of credible intelligence as Fusion GPS did for the DNC to ‘get’ Donald Trump.
After the debacles in Warsaw and Munich where the U.S. couldn’t drum up official support for its anti-Iran policy outside those who were behind it already, Bolton needs to lay the groundwork for the U.S. to ‘go it alone’ if necessary.
The narrative of a dangerous Iran is necessary to keep public support for Bolton’s plans to balkanize Syria. He refuses to give up on the dream. This is why the U.S. is refusing to actually leave Syria without a number of poison pills that would then justify going back in there once the obstacle of Trump is removed or, at least, wholly neutralized.
Leaving weapons in the hands of the Kurdish SDF forces, to keep Turkey anxious is one of these. And this article is yet another. The recent ISIS attack is a third. The MEK attack on IRGC forces in Iran is another.
All of this to scuttle the rational solution of allowing Syrian forces to move in, alongside Russia, to stabilize the region east of the Euphrates river and begin the rebuilding and healing process.
Lastly, tt is why we are, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, noted after Munich that the U.S. is …
“… actively investing and are forcing their allies to pay for redevelopment of that part of Syria [Kurdish territory east of the Euprhates]. However, they are prohibiting their allies to invest in the restructuring of the infrastructure of the other parts of Syria which are controlled by the legitimate government.”
If there was any clearer point about how nothing has changed about our plans in Syria, I truly can’t think of one. Putin’s observation that “Presidents change, policy does not,” continues to ring true every day of the Trump administration.
But with the agreement from the Iraqi government to relocate U.S. troops in Syria to Iraq, it looks like we’ll finally have a Troop Pull Out In Name Only.
Promises made, promises kept, right Orange Obama?
Nothing good comes of any of this. But Bolton knows he can’t get his wished-for war with Iran without more support from the U.S. electorate who are absolutely war-weary.
Lying our way into war is a time-honored presidential tradition that stretches back to before Lincoln. It is nothing new.
And viruses like Bolton and his dispensationalist cohort Mike Pompeo don’t care about the after-effects of their messianic drive for their better world. They don’t care one whit about the Iranian people, Syrians or even the Americans they purport to be doing all of this for.
All they know is that in their mind this is a just war to preserve American hegemony because it is an innately better form of tyranny than the ones practiced by literally anyone else.
That should scare anyone with a half-functioning brain. Too bad John Bolton’s isn’t.
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Why blame bolton? He’s a known commodity. He’s been a zionist, israel supporting warmonger going back to his earliest days shepherding the stupid goyim from one war to the next. He’s where he is because bibi and jared told tump put him there. And don’t blame israel either. If we’re getting used as farm animals by people smarter than us that’s how the world works. The strong prey on the feeble. But let not your hearts be troubled feebs-another vote is only 2 years away.
Vote, my ass.
Apparently the goal is to make Iran safe for sodomites. So, presumably it will be called Operation Butt Sex Liberation.
We would probably be better off if we followed Iran’s lead on solving these sorts of social issues. Though, replacing the entire Pentagon staff on such short notice might be difficult.
Bingo!
AIPAC and AIPAC’s donors are troubled by images of criminal fag child rapists hanging by the neck until dead in Iran.
They don’t want to end up like that themselves, so they dialed Trump on the red emergency phone to put an end to Iran.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/watch-film-israel-lobby-didnt-want-you-see/25876
I really hate to say this because it will involve loss of life on both sides, most likely innocent lives. As I see it, about only thing that will shut these mf’ers up is for them to try and end up with utter and complete failure. That would also include loss of life of american servicemen, who obviously are in this with eyes open but it is not in their nature to disobey an order.
The zionists will not give up, nitenyaahoo will not give up, but one can bet their sweet ass that none of them will be at risk. One could hope that guliani would be in the first wave, but of course not likely, of what ever is tried-that mf’er has been touting war and getting speaker fees from the MEK terrorists at $40-50k a pop.
The Iranians say they will provide the saudis a picture of glowing and destroyed oil fields if they are attacked. Maybe tel aviv as well.
The greater risk of course is of nuclear war. On this, I think the Russians and maybe the Chinese need to step up.
Somewhere, somehow, someone must call these mf’er’s bluff and shut them up-I see no other way. I say this as a citizen and vietnam vet but it really pains me to see what these zionists have done to this country.
Maybe, just maybe, kushner, adelson, will step back and ask themselves WTF-I doubt it and I’m sure the psychopathic niten will not reflect-he is unable.
It’s the agony of the situation we’re in that it’s practicably impossible defending u.s. military personnel especially painfully so for us older guys who were all so proud of our father’s service in WW2. But in those days we fought equals, countries that could and did mount vigorous defenses. Now we fight 3 world basket cases. I resent the shit out of being forced to playing the bully. But I fear a war with Iran will be filled with painful surprises. And unlike years past, the world will be rooting against us.
Well put.
Iran is untouchable in my opinion. Largely because if nukes were real, it would have been converted into a glassy parking lot back in the 1980s.
Well put, except the nuke weapons part… because nukes ain’t nothing but a hoax.
I am in favor of a war with Iran 100%. Not kidding.
The Afghan War cost what, a Trillion dollahs? Sixteen years and counting. Against a bunch of ragheads with rusty rifles?
Iran is no Afghanistan. A real war with Iran will break America’s back … economically, financially, morally, etc. With the End of America as we know it, hopefully, we get a “Do Over” without having a Civil War here.
DEATH TO IRAN!!!!
Caveat. It is exceedingly hard to believe that if we start bombing Iran that BOTH Russia and China will just idly stand by. Could it lead to a hot nuke war? Of course it could. That’s probably not good for anybody.
“dispensationalist cohort Mike Pompeo”
So very, very wrong…