Jeff Huber (at-Largely): Make the World Go Away.."Iran is an excuse to keep the war machine rolling"

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Make the World Go Away

Posted by Jeff Huber

It’s high time we adopted the isolationist policy recommended by our founding fathers. I’m not talking about withdrawing from the world as an economic and diplomatic superpower. I’m suggesting that we just say no to strewing our military strength far and wide every time we have a temper tantrum. The past eight years have shown that our military might doesn’t accomplish our national objectives. Let the crazy world take care of itself.

Senior Israeli officials reportedly traded sharp words with Iranian officials at the non-proliferation talks in Cairo in September. Unnamed Israeli officials supposedly leaked the story, a named Egyptian official (Egypt’s Foreign Minister) confirmed the story, and unnamed Iranian officials denied the story. The truest thing we’re able to determine is that if the named and unnamed Israeli and Iranian officials did meet, they didn’t shake hands. It’s doubtful that had anything to do with swine flue.

As Jason Ditz of Antiwar.com reports, the meeting was “brief and heated.” That’s not surprising. Ditz writes that “the Israeli official accused Iran of violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to which Israel isn’t even a signatory, while the Iranian official pointedly asked Israel to confirm its nuclear arsenal, which it refused to do.”

Those wacky Israelis, always wanting unfair advantages and, as history proves, always getting them from a compliant American military-industrial complex and its network of allies.

Israel’s right-wing Likudniks cherish the same values as America’s neoconservatives: arrogance, indolence, fear mongering and arms spending. (How dare President Obama not give Gen. Stanley McChrystal everything he wants?)

Iran serves a vital role in the Pentagon’s long war strategy. It’s a neo-East Germany; a pseudo-client state of Russia, plopped in the middle of the Middle East. It gives us a reason to keep troops located in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though none of the 9/11 attackers came from Iraq or even Afghanistan and certainly not from Iran.

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http://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2009/10/make-the-world-go-away.html

[jaksavage]

1. Don't you love your country?

How would we survive without 50% of our GDP?

Maybe we would clean up our energy producing aparatus and fix our schools, spend more time with our loved ones, play a musical instrument, grow a garden...never mind.

[laststeamtrain]

2. Oh the horror of single car families & maybe some home-life. That culture stuff: ick. n/t.

[GodDamLiberal]

3. Must feed the war beast! /nt