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US
Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya,
Syria
US
Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya,
Syria
1
January, 2018
Two
weeks ago a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration
showing how Secretary of State and DC neophyte Rex Tillerson was
coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which
to attack and undermine noncompliant governments. Politico reports:
The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
“Allies should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries. Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer allies,” argued the memo, written by Tillerson’s influential policy aide, Brian Hook.
With
what would be perfect comedic timing if it weren’t so frightening,
Iran erupted
in protests which
have been ongoing for the last four days, and the western empire is
suddenly expressing deep, bipartisan concern about the human rights
of those protesters.
Secretary Tillerson reiterates the United States' deep respect for the Iranian people. We call on all nations to stand with us in demanding the regime respect their basic human rights. #Iranprotests
Exact same script from Kiev, Libya, etc dusted off again. Same words. Particularly cruel when you are preparing to bomb these same citizens to pretend to care about their rights... twitter.com/BorisJohnson/s…
So
we all know what this song and dance is code for. Any evil can be
justified in the name of “human rights”.
In
October we learned
from a former Qatari prime minister that
there was a massive push from the US and its allies to topple the
Syrian government from the very beginning of the protests which began
in that country in 2011 as part of the so-called Arab Spring. This
revelation came in the same week The
Intercept finally
released NSA documents confirming
that foreign governments were in direct control of the “rebels”
who began attacking Syria following those 2011 protests. The fretting
over human rights has occurred throughout the entirety of the Syrian
war, even as the governments publicly decrying human rights abuses
were secretly arming and training terrorist factions to murder, rape
and pillage their way across the country.
We’ve
seen it over and over again. In Libya, western interventionism was
justified under the pretense of defending human rights when the
goal was actually regime change.
In Ukraine, empire loyalists played
cheerleader for the protests in
Kiev when the
goal was actually regime change.
And who could ever forget the poor oppressed people of Iraq who will
surely greet
the invaders as liberators?
In
2007 retired four-star General Wesley Clark appeared on Democracy Now
and said that about ten days after 9/11 he learned that the Pentagon
was already making plans for a completely unjustified invasion of
Iraq, and that he was shown a memo featuring a plan to “take out
seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”
So
it’s an established fact that the neocons have had Iran in their
crosshairs for a good long time.
This
is all coming off the back of the nonstop CIA/CNN narrative being
advanced that Iran is a top perpetrator of state-sponsored terrorism,
which is just plain false. I have a lot of Trump-supporting
followers, and I would like to stress to them that the group of
intelligence veterans who authored this
memo about Iran is
the same group who released
a memo dismantling the bogus Russiagate narrative;
these are good people and you can trust them. I encourage you to read
it.
Trump
is lying when he
says Iran is
“the Number One State of Sponsored Terror”. This is the same
exact script they run over and over and over again, and people are
falling for it again like Charlie Brown and the football. It is
nonsensical to believe things asserted by the US intelligence and
defense agencies on blind faith at this point, especially when they
are clearly working to manufacture support for interventionism in a
key strategic location. In a post-Iraq invasion world, nothing
but the most intense skepticism of such behavior is acceptable.
Luckily,
because a full scale invasion of Iran would be far more costly and
deadly than the invasion of Iraq, support for this will need to be
manufactured not just in America but within an entire coalition of
its allies. This will be extremely difficult to do, but by God they
are trying.
Please
keep your skepticism cranked up to eleven on this Iran stuff, dear
reader, and be very loudly vocal about it. My Trump-supporting
readers especially, I implore you to think critically about all this
and look closely at the similarities between the anti-Iran agenda and
the other interventions I know you oppose.
Together we can kill this
narrative and spare ourselves another senseless middle eastern
bloodbath.
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