Leave it to the US government to wallow in pretzel logic. Just as the Bush Administration refused to release detainees it knew were innocent because it had abused them so badly in custody that they might now be radicalized against us, the Trump Administration is worried that Iran might have to be finished off entirely because we’ve gone and royally pissed them off beyond repair.
Now We Really Do Have To Kill Them All
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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It is so characteristic of Trump, and of his most vociferous detractors, to endow him with unique creative abilities … even if for only monumental geopolitical eff-ups.
This not only erroneously credits him with abilities he doesn’t have but also, as so characteristically American 1) ignores history, assuming it were ever known and 2) demeans yet another abused people on the empire’s long list of victims as unjustified in and incapable of responding appropriately to decades of crimes committed against them.
The 1953 US regime change in Iran saddled it with the repressive and brutal rule of the Shah … assisted in the imposition of advanced depravity by meticulous CIA training. The unnoticed and unexpected radicalization by that 26-year crime was the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ever since, the US has imposed essentially continuous economic sanctions on Iran. The first eight years included a war with its neighbor Iraq, gleefully supported by the US, if not directly ordered by it, which professional imperial ass-lickers dutifully insist.
In the current US/Israel illegal aggression Iran has stated that it has been in preparation for its defense for decades.
A related note: “Economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths ANNUALLY from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106 000 deaths).” Assuming the same death rate, post 2021, for Western sanctions, some 31 million have been killed in the 55 years to present. Source: The Lancet Global Health
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