The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot (Glenn Greenwald)

[walerosco]

The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto sacred American soil to commit Terrorism — against Saudi Arabia and possibly Israel — is what Bill Kristol and John Bolton would feverishly dream up while dropping acid and madly cackling at the possibility that they could get someone to believe it. But since the U.S. Government rolled out its Most Serious Officials with Very Serious Faces to make these accusations, many people (therefore) do believe it; after all, U.S. government accusations = Truth. All Serious people know that. And in the ensuing reaction one finds virtually every dynamic typically shaping discussions of Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy

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The ironies here are so self-evident it’s hard to work up the energy to point them out. Outside of Pentagon reporters, Washington Post Editorial Page Editors, and Brookings “scholars,” is there a person on the planet anywhere who can listen with a straight face as drone-addicted U.S. Government officials righteously condemn the evil, illegal act of entering another country to commit an assassination? Does anyone, for instance, have any interest in finding out who is responsible for the spate of serial murders aimed at Iran’s nuclear scientists? Wouldn’t people professing to be so outraged by the idea of entering another country to engage in assassination be eager to get to the bottom of that?

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Then there’s the War on Terror irony: our Hated Enemy here (Iran) is a country which had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. Meanwhile, our close ally, the victim on whose behalf we are so outraged (Saudi Arabia), is not only one of the most tyrannical and aggressive regimes on the planet, but produced 15 of the 19 hijackers and had extensive and still-unknown involvement in that attack. If the U.S. is so deeply offended by the involvement of a foreign government in an attack on U.S. soil, it would be looking first to its close friend Saudi Arabia, where “elements of the government” were likely involved in an actual plot rather than a joke of a plot.


Read more @ http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/12/the_very_scary_iranian_terror_plot/singleton/

[TomClash]

1. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2104702

[DRoseDARs]

2. Not really a dupe if posted in a different forum. Unless you mean to bridge the 2 postings. n/t

[TomClash]

4. It doesn't really matter anyway

As long as people get the message.

[So Shall Us]

5. Amen

Te morte merrier. ;-)

[sabrina 1]

3. Excellent points from Greenwald, as always.

After just going into another sovereign country and killing a US citizen without evidence, charges, or any kind of due process, Greenwald is correct, can anyone take this seriously? Are they seriously going to start a war based on this obvious fairy tale?

I truly hope there are some adults somewhere in this government who can put a stop to this before what is left of this country is completely destroyed.

And where are all the 'lefties' who were so outraged at the Bush Administration for beating the war drums against Iran? No wonder people have taken to the streets and have given up on this government. The foreign media almost unanimously has all but laughed at this latest trumped up attempt to go to war with Iran.

Great article from Greenwald as always. He has become the conscience, what's left of it, of the 'left' in this country because so few have the courage to stand up against what they had no problem standing against under Bush.