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"They never learn. Once again, a bellicose US president has unleashed
overwhelming military firepower to force a sovereign nation to its knees. Once
again, blatant lies and exaggerated claims are being propagated to justify the
attack. Duplicitous American diplomacy became a fig leaf for premeditated
aggression. The cautionary advice of allies was spurned. The UN, international
law and public opinion were ignored. Democratic consent is lacking. And once
again, there are few defined goals by which to gauge success, and no long-term
plan.
Now, as in the past, the predictable result of today’s renewed, expanded and
apparently open-ended US-Israeli aggression against Iran will be instant,
spreading chaos. Civilians will be killed, children orphaned, families torn
apart. Regional turmoil and international oil-price panic will follow the
Iranian retaliation that has already begun, and which may be backed by Tehran’s
Hezbollah and Houthi allies. New hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas
sown. The west’s foes will rejoice. And almost nothing of enduring value will
be achieved. That was the bitter outcome of the failed US-led interventions in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Today, it’s Tehran’s turn to reap the whirlwind.
How dismaying – how unforgivable! – that those past lessons have not been
learned. How incredible that an elected 21st-century American president still
believes it’s effective and permissible, let alone moral, to dictate to the
world from the barrel of a gun. By what conceivable right does the US behave in
this way?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
