The conventional wisdom inside the Beltway is that the Administration now no longer can feel free to launch an attack on Iran. But CheneyBush for the past seven years have demonstrated time and time again that they want what they want and that they will move to get what they want despite what anybody else thinks or does.
What they want before a new president is inauguarated in January 2009 is to wipe out Iran's weapons capabilities, nuclear and conventional, at the very least setting back that country's geopolitical ambitions in the Greater Middle East for at least a decade or two. During this hiatus, presumably Iraq and other regional countries can be built up as buffers against Iranian influence.
While it's true that Iran may have dodged an imminent bullet as a result of the NIE findings, CheneyBush are desperately looking for some way to justify an attack on Iran -- or, if they don't initiate it themselves, will support a massive bombing from the air by their regional ally Israel.-
CheneyBush's operational tactic at the moment is to try to get American citizens enraged at the Iranians for smuggling explosives in large quantities into Iraq (which may or may not be true), which wind up killing U.S. troops. On a second track, CheneyBush will try provoking Iran into some deadly overt act that would require a robust military response by the U.S.
In short, friends, the final year of CheneyBush in power, unless they are impeached and removed soon, is going to be filled with even more such reckless, dangerous initiatives abroad, and continued degradation of our democracy and Constitution at home. Fasten your seatbelts; we're all in for a helleva bumpy 2008. #
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, and serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net .
First published by The Crisis Papers and Democratic Underground 12/11/07.
Copyright 2007 by Bernard Weiner.
What they want before a new president is inauguarated in January 2009 is to wipe out Iran's weapons capabilities, nuclear and conventional, at the very least setting back that country's geopolitical ambitions in the Greater Middle East for at least a decade or two. During this hiatus, presumably Iraq and other regional countries can be built up as buffers against Iranian influence.
While it's true that Iran may have dodged an imminent bullet as a result of the NIE findings, CheneyBush are desperately looking for some way to justify an attack on Iran -- or, if they don't initiate it themselves, will support a massive bombing from the air by their regional ally Israel.-
CheneyBush's operational tactic at the moment is to try to get American citizens enraged at the Iranians for smuggling explosives in large quantities into Iraq (which may or may not be true), which wind up killing U.S. troops. On a second track, CheneyBush will try provoking Iran into some deadly overt act that would require a robust military response by the U.S.
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, and serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net .
First published by The Crisis Papers and Democratic Underground 12/11/07.
Copyright 2007 by Bernard Weiner.
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