One interpretation of the Lebanese-Israeli conflict is that Bush and Olmert seized on the Hezbollah raid as a pretext for a pre-planned escalation that will lead to bombing campaigns against Syria and Iran, justified by their backing of Hezbollah.
In that view, Bush found himself stymied by U.S. military objections to targeting Iran's nuclear facilities outside any larger conflict. However, if the bombing of Iran develops as an outgrowth of a tit-for-tat expansion of a war in which Israel's existence is at stake, strikes against Iranian targets would be more palatable to the American public.
The end game would be U.S.-Israeli aerial strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities with the goal of crippling its nuclear program and humiliating Ahmadinejad.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Apocalypse How?
Robert Parry's essay "The Abyss Beckons" provides the best analysis I've seen for what the neo-conservative cabal running our government hopes to accomplish in Lebanon. Here's a quote:
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This is what happens, Reverend, when you "Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war." Julius Caesar, Act III by Shakespeare. The neocons did it in Iraq and the result can be unpredictable chaos and widening devastation.
Regards.
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