But that is not the point, any more than Saddam's alleged ("solid evidence") nuclear program was the reason to invade Iraq. The point is to exploit this Iranian test (which politically is also a test of will) in order to escalate the attack on Iran.
So Flynn, the Islam hater, has come out strong, as a direct representative not of the National Security apparatus but of Trump, and said that Iran was "officially on notice." Trump spokesmen, when asked what that meant, refused to clarify, stating it was deliberately "confusing." This confirm the suspicion that the chaos of Trump's first weeks is not incompetene so much as a form of shock and awe to create the state of confusion in which radical changes can take place with little notice. See Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine.
This is the opening salvo in the War on Iran, which Trump advisors like Woolsey (now departed) and Bolton said was part of the PNAC plan for world domination thru 7 Middle East wars, starting with Iraq and ending with Iran. Trump's neo-con designs have now become apparent after a fake departure from neo-con policies with the fake peace overtures to Putin and Assad. Iran is being set up, just as Iraq was, to justify US military intervention......and since Iran has no nukes, no nuke program, the claim that its missiles violate the UN resolution because they are "designed to carry nuclear warheads" is clearly a pretext to use the threat of military action. The repudiation of neo-con war mongering has now been revealed to be sleight of hand. The war on Iran is the keystone of the PNAC plan for US hegemony, and let us be clear: it would destroy any friendship with Russia or Syria, both military allies of Iran, not to mention China and Iraq.
The plan is being executed as designed. The plan is world domination, a recipe for endless war.
And Flynn's Islamophobia on steroids, as when he said, "We are facing another 'ism,' just like we faced Nazism, and fascism, and imperialism and communism," Flynn said. "This is Islamism, it is vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised."
He is clearly evoking the threat of war to "excise" this cancer of Islamism, which he has in the past shortened to "Islam."
So here is the setup: get everyone preoccupied with the Muslim ban while rearranging the National Security Council as a political body dominated by Flynn and Bannon, both untouched by Congressional oversight. Then exploit the first Iranian test of US will to begin rattling sabers. Since, with Russia, China, Iraq, and Syria on its side, it is unlikely to cave into Trump's bullying, the threat of a military confrontation is very real.
Trump has said just last September after a US warship entered Iranian territory, "With Iran,when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water."
This week, A US bombing killed an 8 yr old girl, part of Trump's tactic of killing the children of suspected terrorists.
I have predicted in previous articles that the first important foreign policy initiative of the Trump administration would be to find a pretext to tear up the Iran Nuclear Deal and start up a shooting war.
Conclusion: Trump has both signaled his attempt to trash the Iran Deal and find a pretext for a War on Iran. He has recalibrated the National Security Council to thwart its role as a check on reckless behavior and put his political strategist in the middle of the action, along with the hell-bent Islamophobe Flynn.
We are on our way to war......and only a massive protest by the American people can stop it (as it did not when Bush rushed to war on Iraq). Trump will seek to divert public attention with lesser outrages and so we must be on our guard not to be distracted from the master plan of world domination, in utter betrayal of Trump's pretend rejection of neo-con war mongering.
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