Re: But how many wars can the US undertake (allegedly) for the benefit of a bunch of right-wing, Zionist fanatics?
Well, as I once put it, warfare abroad actually fulfills a domestic regulation of sorts... It's a way for the US to extract the "excess heat" out of its domestic fabric and vent it towards some convenient alien bugaboo --be it Afghanistan's Taliban, Iraq's Ba'athists, or Iran's mullahs.
"I suspect that America's recurrent warmongering somehow functions as a political escapism for the American society as a whole. Although the US is waging war abroad, in remote wastelands such as Afghanistan and the Middle East, the war fulfills actually a domestic function --in pretty much the same way soccer hooliganism does in Europe."
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Re: Iran will be no walk in the park and although it might be deemed "doable" by the power-crazed neocons to drop a few nukes or whatever here and there, what happens after that?
Who cares? Human decisions are not driven by pure, foolproof rationality. Otherwise the German establishment would have removed Chancellor Hitler well before 1939... and the US would have cut its losses in Vietnam well before 1972... The French would have granted Algeria independence in 1950, not in 1962 after a bloody eight-year war... etc, etc. It'll be up to historians and scholars of the late XXIst century to explain how the US, spurred by its Judeofascist elites, set off WWIII.
Re: Which makes me think that China, Russia, France, Germany & Co would be delighted if the US were to become embroiled in another long and bloody campaign. And they will see to it that it is as long and bloody as possible.
Well, I think you are right insofar as China is concerned: as a Confucian power, China is somehow alien to the Judeo-Christian-Muslim slugfest. And it is indeed in China's interest to prolong the conflict between the US and the Mideast. A protracted war in Iraq, extended to Iran, will drain the US's energies away from the economical battlefield and isolate the US (geo)politically. From a Chinese point of view, the Middle East mess is a useful distraction.
However, I don't think Europe will gain much out of any escalation of the current war --remember Madrid 311. I believe that any attack on Iran will be preceded by terrorist strikes against European countries. Iran has already made it clear that she'll hold Europe accountable for the eventual failure of the ongoing "nuclear negotiations"... Next we must take into account the Judeofascists' need to toughen and, at the same time, neutralize public opinion in Europe. The shortest way to achieve that will be "false-flag terrorism": allegedly Islamic terrorist strikes against France, Germany,... perpetrated by US and Israeli agents in cahoots with their closet European allies.
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