The attacks on Iran are by no means a victory “for civilisation”. |
The Iranian dictator is dead, his repressive regime is being bombed into submission, and now the world can look forward to peace and stability. It all sounds so simple when scripted in the manner of a Netflix action drama and – as multiple armchair foreign policy hawks are now insisting – the sudden obliteration of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his office on a Saturday morning can only be a time for rejoicing.
The problem, of course, is that there are always consequences to a riotous weekend of death and destruction, and the true cost of the American-Israeli strikes on a sovereign country is far from being known. As was apparent following similar executions this century – whether of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2006 or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, for example – taking out leaders detested by the West is never a quick fix. On the contrary, even more instability, including murderous violence, is all we can be certain of.
The weapons-grade gaslighting accompanying this war on behalf of “the brave Iranian people” – as Israel puts it – is off the scale: Iranian civilians, including schoolgirls, apparently approve of being slaughtered and having their homes destroyed, just like the Palestinians.
The weapons-grade gaslighting accompanying this war on behalf of “the brave Iranian people” – as Israel puts it – is off the scale: Iranian civilians, including schoolgirls, apparently approve of being slaughtered and having their homes destroyed, just like the Palestinians.
Casualty figures caused by war, occupation, insurgencies, and civil conflict in post-Saddam Iraq are well into seven figures, while the cost of illegal regime change in Libya has also been enormous. The North African country remains full of militias who – just like America and Israel – think nothing of destroying human life with impunity. Having the best weapons is the key to power, and who cares what anybody else thinks, is the warlord rationale.
A key difference between the murderous outlaws in countries such as Iraq and Libya, and the USA and Israel, however, is that the latter use recognised state armies and employ reams of propagandists to try and convince the world that they are in fact the fictional TV-style “good guys” doing what has to be done “for civilisation”.
The weapons-grade gaslighting accompanying this war on behalf of “the brave Iranian people” – as Israel puts it – is off the scale: Iranian civilians, including schoolgirls, apparently approve of being slaughtered and having their homes destroyed, just like the Palestinians.
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