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in this regard they are not the aggressor, the US is
Posted on: July 22, 2019 at 14:35:49 CT
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/07/daniel-mcadams/are-libertarians-the-new-neocons/
“Libertarian” malpractice in the area of foreign affairs unfortunately does not end there. All non-interventionists with any understanding of the Middle East will cringe – and worse – at an absurd recent article published by the once-libertarian Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Provocatively titled, “Iran Wants a War; America Should Not Oblige Them,” the author writes of “a dangerous upsurge in Iranian aggression, designed specifically to elicit a military response from the United States” without once mentioning the precipitating factor: US withdrawal from the JCPOA and a US policy of “maximum pressure” which is in practice an economic blockade – itself a unilateral act of war against Iran!
Translation: I punch you in the face and if you dare punch back you are the guilty party.
The author of this steaming pile of interventionist feces completely ignores the antecedent to recent Iranian actions: US aggression toward Iran – reimposing economic sanctions, demanding that others not trade with Iran so as to suffocate its citizens in the hopes that in their desperation they overthrow their government.
Instead, the Iranians just woke up one morning and decided to draw the United States into war!
In fact, in the author’s telling, it’s actually Washington that is the victim of those pesky Ayatollas: “Indeed, the Ayatollah is running a risky gambit, and that’s exactly why America must resist the temptation to respond in kind.”
No, Bolton and Bibi have done nothing! It’s the Iranians who out of the blue “desperately want to goad the United States into a fight, which is one reason too many not to oblige them.”
This is a loaded gun dressed up as an olive branch.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/07/daniel-mcadams/are-libertarians-the-new-neocons/
“Libertarian” malpractice in the area of foreign affairs unfortunately does not end there. All non-interventionists with any understanding of the Middle East will cringe – and worse – at an absurd recent article published by the once-libertarian Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Provocatively titled, “Iran Wants a War; America Should Not Oblige Them,” the author writes of “a dangerous upsurge in Iranian aggression, designed specifically to elicit a military response from the United States” without once mentioning the precipitating factor: US withdrawal from the JCPOA and a US policy of “maximum pressure” which is in practice an economic blockade – itself a unilateral act of war against Iran!
Translation: I punch you in the face and if you dare punch back you are the guilty party.
The author of this steaming pile of interventionist feces completely ignores the antecedent to recent Iranian actions: US aggression toward Iran – reimposing economic sanctions, demanding that others not trade with Iran so as to suffocate its citizens in the hopes that in their desperation they overthrow their government.
Instead, the Iranians just woke up one morning and decided to draw the United States into war!
In fact, in the author’s telling, it’s actually Washington that is the victim of those pesky Ayatollas: “Indeed, the Ayatollah is running a risky gambit, and that’s exactly why America must resist the temptation to respond in kind.”
No, Bolton and Bibi have done nothing! It’s the Iranians who out of the blue “desperately want to goad the United States into a fight, which is one reason too many not to oblige them.”
This is a loaded gun dressed up as an olive branch.
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in this regard they are not the aggressor, the US is - pickle MU - 7/22 14:35:49