Re: In fact, when the nukes fall on Teheran Westerners will say that the Iranians got what they deserved.
At the nuclear "game", the US has much more to lose than Iran... This isn't 1945 anymore --when the US, as the sole nuclear power, could just nuke Japan twice and get away with it. I'm afraid that, should the US cross the nuclear threshold with Iran, it'll only be a matter of time before a US city gets nuked in turn. And since the easiest way to mess with the US is to tap its growing "anti-wetback" feelings, US authorities will soon find themselves dragged into a quasi-civil war against its Hispanic minority (40 million people!).
As I once said long ago, Americans will eventually figure out that it's unwise --and ultimately suicidal-- for the US to replicate Israel's behavior on a world scale.... Israel, as a tiny, micro-garrison-state, itself depending upon a much more powerful patron (the US), can play the bully in the Middle East and enforce and apartheid regime at home/domestically. After all, Israel never pretended to be an egalitarian, color-blind model for the world --from the outset, Israel has defined itself as a homeland for Jews first and foremost. So, why does the US, a multiracial polity of 300 million, seek to emulate Israel's supremacist hubris? The US social fabric itself can't, and won't be able to, sustain it. Ever more suicide bombings, ever more terrorist attacks and rocket firing by Hezbullah, ever more intifadas, didn't weaken Israel's self-righteousness. Palestinian/Arab violence/resistance didn't sap the resilience of the Israeli stratocracy nor did it break Israelis' hatred of Arabs. Quite the contrary: it swelled Israel's lust for ever more bloodshed, ever more retribution, ever more warfare, and ever more internal cohesion (around Sharon yesterday and around Netanyahu tomorrow). However, the same sociopolitical dynamics won't pan out for the US, I'm afraid, and the more the latter apes its Israeli Svengali, the more it hastens its own demise....
Gus |
