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20/01/05
– Iran -
Question de "bon sens" - "Bon sens"
question...
Let's
attack Iran!
By GWYNNE DYER, Trinidad News 19/01/05
"Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article about American forces carrying
out reconnaissance missions in Iran to locate hidden Iranian nuclear
facilities, presumably in order to be able to destroy them all in a
surprise attack, may be "riddled with errors,'' as the White House
promptly alleged. It may be entirely true. And either way, it may have
been deliberately leaked by the Bush administration to frighten Iran. But
what was really revealing was the US media response to it.
There seems to be hardly anyone in the mainstream US media who is willing
to question the assumption that Iranian nuclear weapons would be, say, ten
times more dangerous than Chinese nuclear weapons. Yet China is a
totalitarian Communist dictatorship while Iran is a partially democratic
country struggling, so far unsuccessfully, to rid itself of the clique of
deeply conservative mullahs who have dominated defence and foreign policy
(together with much else) since 1979. Why is Iran seen as such a
threat?..."
"...It's not even as simple as the fact that Iran is Muslim, and that
Americans have got really twitchy about Muslims with nuclear weapons since
September 11. They have, but there is no public anxiety in the US about
Pakistan's nuclear weapons, let alone any agitation for some sort of
"pre-emptive attack'' to destroy them-and this despite the fact that
a senior Pakistani nuclear scientist was caught selling nuclear weapons
technology and knowledge to other Muslim countries, almost certainly with
the complicity of some official circles in Islamabad.
Iran is not a "crazy state.'' In the 25 years that the mullahs have
been in power, they have not attacked any neighbouring state..."
"...They backed their fellow Shias in southern Lebanon in their long
resistance to the Israeli occupation and continue to help them today- but
if that is support for "terrorism,'' it is only in the specific
context of Arab resistance to Israeli military occupation..."
"...Iran's nuclear programme is not about the US, and the notion that
the Iranian government would give terrorists nuclear weapons to attack
American targets is just paranoid fantasy. Besides, Iran doesn't have any
nuclear weapons yet, and if it sticks to the agreement it negotiated with
the European contact group (Britain, France and Germany) late last year,
it may never have them..."
"...The talk is still macho, but the performance is not there to back
it up. What the US public gets for all the taxes it pays on defence -
currently around $2,000 a year for every American man, woman and child- is
armed forces that are barely capable of holding down one middle-sized Arab
country.
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There simply
aren't any American troops available to invade Iran, and air strikes will
only annoy them. What would really tip the whole area into an acute crisis
is a re-radicalised Iran that has concluded that it will never be secure
until it has expelled the US from the region."
Lire également, Read also :
Israel
in the Iran fray, too
Asia Times 20/01/05
"...Thus, the essential aspect of Israel's position on
the subject is that no Middle Eastern country, save itself,
has the right to possess nuclear weapons..."
Setting
Sights on Syria
National Review 19/01/05
"...and an offensive against Syria may be next, because
now, evidence that Syria and Syrian-controlled Lebanon provide
the critical support that sustains the terror war in Iraq is
overwhelming..."
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