{"id":5437,"date":"2012-01-30T20:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2012-01-30T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:04:13","slug":"5437","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"Pushing for War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putting Israel First<\/strong>
\nThe War Party’s Achilles’ heel<\/em>
\nby Justin Raimondo – 30 January, 2012 – Antiwar Forum<\/p>\n

The campaign to lure the US into attacking Iran has one big problem to overcome before the War Party can taste success: the rather obvious fact that such a war would benefit Israel, and not the United States. This is why Israel\u2019s partisans in the US constitute the spearhead of the pro-war agitation, why AIPAC has made this a consistent theme for the past few years, and why the billionaire Sheldon Adelson, aside from funding the Newtster, has poured untold millions into the same project. Hardly a day goes by without some Israeli government official reiterating, once again, that Iran represents an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to the Jewish state, and threatening to strike the first blow if Uncle Sam fails to wake up in time, while Israel\u2019s amen corner dutifully echoes the same line.<\/p>\n

Israel and its more vehement partisans in this country have demanded the US attack Iran, even going so far as to raise the specter of another Holocaust if America fails to act. However, one argument they have failed to make is significant by its absence \u2013 they have failed to show how it is in America\u2019s interest to launch a military strike. Indeed, they have neglected this part of the equation rather ostentatiously, and yet one can hardly blame them for this oversight for the simple reason that such a case would be impossible to make. An attack on Iran would deprive the world economy of a significant portion of its energy needs, and would likely result in an economic catastrophe in this country \u2013 to say nothing of the costs of the war, in blood and treasure. War-weary Americans are not in the mood for another invasion and occupation in search of nonexistent \u201cweapons of mass destruction.\u201d This is the War Party\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel.<\/p>\n

How to get around this is the problem at the heart of the War Party\u2019s current project, and in order to do so they are employing the deadliest weapon in their well-stocked arsenal: the accusation of \u201cracism,\u201d the most toxic accusation anyone can make about someone in the current political climate. Specifically, they are accusing war opponents of \u201canti-Semitism.\u201d After all, if Israel is the Jewish state, and that state\u2019s very existence is threatened by the specter of Iran\u2019s alleged nuclear weapons program (which US intelligence has stubbornly failed to detect), then opposition to US military action is \u201canti-Semitism,\u201d pure and simple. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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