Iran 11

De Amerikaanse auteur Norman Solomon schrijft in Truthout: 'The Iran Crisis: ''Diplomacy'' as a Launch Pad for Missiles. The current flurry of Western diplomacy will probably turn out to be groundwork for launching missiles at Iran. Air attacks on targets in Iran are very likely. Yet many anti-war Americans seem eager to believe that won't happen. Illusion #1: With the US military bogged down in Iraq, the Pentagon is in no position to take on Iran. But what's on the horizon is not an invasion - it's a major air assault, which the American military can easily inflict on Iranian sites. (And if the task falls to the Israeli military, it is also well-equipped to bomb Iran.) Illusion #2: The Bush administration is in so much political trouble at home - for reasons including its lies about Iraqi WMDs - that it wouldn't risk an uproar from an attack on Iran. But the White House has been gradually preparing the domestic political ground for bombing Iran. As the Wall Street Journal reported days ago, "in recent polls a surprisingly large number of Americans say they would support US military strikes to stop Tehran from getting the bomb." Above those words, the Journal's headline - "US Chooses Diplomacy on Iran's Nuclear Program" - trumpeted the Bush administration's game plan. It's a time-honored scam: When you're moving toward aggressive military action, emphasize diplomacy.' Lees verder: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020606C.shtml
Norman Solomon is the author of the new book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. For information, go to: WarMadeEasy.com.