As the WW I era writer Randolph Bourne once summed it up "war is the health of the state" and the drums were beating over the week yet another one. This will be the granddaddy of them all, the long-promoted but oft-preempted attack on Iran, the country that represents the crown jewel for the Neocons. With the French sabotage of the past weekend's Iranian talks about the hotly disputed nuclear program delivering yet another humiliation to the bumbling, bloviating fool that is Secretary of State John Kerry there is now an opening into which every effort will be poured on pushing an on the ropes, on the verge of bankruptcy country into yet another ruinous war. This one will be the big one, if there was a good possibility that the aborted Syrian attack of August would have turned into WW III it is a dead certainty that attacking Iran, one of China's top trade partners will do exactly that.
Keep in mind that China holds a good deal of U.S. debt and has the ability to pretty much destroy American dominance as well as the military machine by calling it in. If this happens there is nothing that either Helicopter Ben Bernanke nor Janet Yellen will be able to do to stop it, they can run the printing presses at the Marriner S. Eccles Building until the melt but the era of the dollar will be over. Hell, it's not like we aren't on the way there anyway because even the Fed's schemes have their eventual end point but living in a tent city and foraging for scraps to eat is one thing, doing it while basking in the nuclear fallout of a war to end all wars is another.
Kerry, a lifelong member of Yale's infamous Skull and Bones society was riding high last weekend as he arrived in Geneva to along with the rest of the P5+1 gang put the finishing touches on the deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program and begin lifting economic sanctions was knee capped as the French contingent led by Laurent Fabius after what was reported to be a Saudi bribe from Prince Bandar bin Sultan aka Bandar Bush led to the scuttling of the talks. The buffoonish Kerry, his latest humiliation sealed his place as the most inept head of the State Department in recent memory, Kerry went into full retreat mode just like the guy who parlayed his opposition to the Vietnam War into a political career who went from antiwar icon to pusher of more wars. The neocons and right-wing Israeli warmongers then poured it on, using what was announced to be a "delay" in talks to mount a relentless propaganda campaign that would mobilize the craven and bought on the cheap U.S. Congress, specifically the House which is chock a block with the type of lunatics who want a Middle Eastern conflagration so Jesus can come back. On the Sunday morning circuit while South Carolina's Lindsey Graham was pushing for even more crippling sanctions on Iran, at one point lisping "thank God for France" Kerry was being mocked by establishment lickspittle David Gregory. Kerry at one point in his life dared to utter the blasphemy that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the lone nut that was able to circumvent the tight security of a presidential protection detail and deliver a shot to the head to President John F. Kennedy that crack snipers would have difficulty pulling off and then escaping before being cornered like a rat and eventually murdered by a mob connected loon before he could be tried. There are certain things in this land that just cannot be questioned if you are to remain a political figure of any influence.
But the talks were torpedoed and the march to war is once again on and with Barry in desperation mode after his historic debacle of an abomination of a health care reform program designed solely to keep the insurance parasites supplied with new bodies to milk for profit the man just may finally be ready to go along with it as a distraction. If if wasn't for Putin the lying bastards Obama and Kerry be into the third month of bombings of Damascus and Raytheon stock would be trading at an all time high but they just couldn't close the deal with the American sheeple. Now with the formerly vilified French "cheese eating surrender monkeys" being hailed by the neocons as though they were the second coming of Sir Winston himself, Netanyahu's mustering of his American shocktroops and Kerry's flip-flopping this could finally be the time when the stars are in alignment for what will be the mass suicide of the western world. Obama is clearly screwed now thanks to his own incompetence, the vilified community organizer who has been turned into a fake devil by on the payroll right-wing stooges seeking to compare him to the great leftist manipulator Saul Alinsky, a man who Barry isn't fit to carry his coffee cup. Ironically Alinsky's tactics have been adopted by the right who in their typical asinine, self centered way pay the man no credit. Old Saul must be rolling over in his grave over Obama, he mocked such phonies as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin as not being capable of organizing a lunch counter.
But I digress...
Obama's fraudulence has now brought us to a very dangerous point, with the House of representatives smelling the scent of blood as they haven't since Bubba Clinton made the critical error of blowing his wad onto Monica Lewinsky's infamous blue dress the tribunals are looming. With Darrell Issa aka Congressman Grand Theft Auto convening his stupid little "kangaroo courts" over everything but the NSA Stasi's unconstitutional spying on Americans the subpoenas are already being printed for the Obama impeachment hearings. The furor of partisan vendettas and settling political scores is now coalescing with the House Armageddon caucus, take for example the deranged freak that is Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois who is already shilling for Netanyahu's war as are many others in the corrupted and contemptible legislature where 30 pieces of silver buys loyalty to a country other than the one what they swore an oath to. Justin Raimondo of the FBI targeted Antiwar.com pegged it in his latest column Showdown at the Geneva Corral:
Does Senator Mark Kirk know whom he is supposed to be representing?
One wonders. After an administration briefing to the Senate Banking Committee, held to persuade members to hold off on new Iran sanctions, Kirk had this to say:
"’It was fairly anti-Israeli. I was supposed to disbelieve everything the Israelis had just told me, and I think the Israelis probably have a pretty good intelligence service.’ He said the Israelis had told him that the ‘total changes proposed set back the program by 24 days.’ A Senate aide familiar with the meeting said that ‘every time anybody would say anything about ‘what would the Israelis say,’ they’d get cut off and Kerry would say, ‘You have to ignore what they’re telling you, stop listening to the Israelis on this. They had no details,’ the aide said. ‘They had no ability to verify anything, to describe anything, to answer basic questions.’"
Why is "what would the Israelis say" the first thing out of Sen. Kirk’s mouth? He is supposed to represent the state of Illinois in the US Senate – not the state of Israel. But you’d never know it from his public pronouncements on this issue. Yes, the Israelis do indeed "have a pretty good intelligence service," one devoted to relentlessly pursuing Israeli interests. Those interests are not always aligned with American policy objectives – indeed, these days the two are rather frequently in conflict. And it is telling that Sen. Kirk doesn’t recognize this, or, if he does, chooses to listen to the Israelis rather than what our own intelligence services have been telling us regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
The official National Intelligence Estimate states "with high confidence" Tehran gave up its weapons program way back in 2003. Yet Sen. Kirk chooses to take the Israeli side in an increasingly public and acrimonious dispute between the government of the United States and a foreign entity with a long history of crying wolf over the alleged imminence of Iranian nukes.
Now that Obama's balls are in a sling and the vultures are circling I would imagine that the coming days will bring a new willingness and an increased level of bellicosity towards the regime in Tehran. It won't save him from the lynch mob that has been restful for the past five years but it could prove to doom us all once the Commander in Chief is able to channel his inane football metaphors from "fumbling" on Obamacare to a "Hail Mary" in the Middle East and lending U.S. backing to the doomsday strike on Iran.
The Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times" is a bit of hysterical irony coming home to roost in The Homeland.
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