What a bad week for the war party. Darn you, Iran! The country that the armchair
warriors most love to hate refuses to play the villain’s role assigned by the
neoconservatives, “humanitarian” interventionists, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and
the establishment media.
First Iran quickly released 10 U.S. sailors whose armed boats had violated Iran’s
territorial waters near the militarily sensitive Farsi Island in the Persian
Gulf. (Never mind why the boats were there; the official explanation keeps changing,
but don’t dare suggest the reason was anything but innocent.)
Next Iran was found in full compliance with the nuclear agreement, killing its
nonexistent nuclear-weapons program.
Then it released five Americans held in Iran in exchange for seven Iranians
held in American prisons. (None of the 12 should have been jailed.)
What’s a war party to do when the Official Enemy won’t act like it? Where are
militarists who seek the presidency to turn if they can’t count on their tacit
allies, Iran’s hardliners, to sabotage the constructive actions of the reasonable
Iranian president and foreign minister?
The US government and its closest ally, Israel, have threatened to attack
Iran for decades. Meanwhile they have conducted covert, proxy, and cyber war
against the Islamic Republic. But Iran wouldn’t take the bait. George W. Bush
hoped to bomb Iran into regime-change before he left office, but the US intelligence
apparatus documented that
Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, leaving Bush’s plans in tatters.
The warmongers just can’t catch a break, but Iran’s un-enemy-like conduct doesn’t
deter them. As true-believers, they are unfazed by facts.