US Military Leadership Said to Oppose Iran Strike As Ineffective

[oldpol]

Source: Geostrategy Direct

U.S. military leadership said to oppose Iran strike as ineffective

ABU DHABI — Andrew Terrill, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Army War College, said the United States would not launch air strikes against Iran. Terrill, who teaches at the Strategic Studies Institute, said Teheran did not have the capability to develop nuclear warheads. "A bombing raid would not knock them out forever," Terrill said in an address to the Bahrain Center of Studies and Research on May 15. "They will rise again." Terrill has been regarded as a leading U.S. military analyst. His opposition to a U.S. war with Iran was said to reflect the feeling of most of the military brass

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[Peace Patriot]

1. And I imagine it's something of a deterrent that China has nukes (and gets

a lot of its oil from Iran). It may also give the U.S. military pause that Iran is well-defended, unlike pushover Iraq--deprived of an air force, pummeled by years of "no fly zone" bombings, and economically crippled by sanctions, after Gulf War I in which their army was decimated. So long as the U.S. government is embarked upon unjust, corporate resource wars, the U.S. military has to pick on the weak, because the American people will not provide the drafted cannon fodder needed for unjust war against a strong "enemy," after Vietnam. They would risk their entire war profiteer boondoggle--grown into a monster since WW II--by choosing a strong "enemy" like Iran.

I have to be glad that they oppose the utter insanity of attacking Iran--as Bush/Cheney would do, if they could find the generals to do it for them. But we shouldn't be naive about the motives of the U.S. "military-industrial complex." "Little wars" can keep them in boodle, too--like, war on Venezuela and Ecuador (biggest pots of oil in the western hemisphere; leftist governments) launched from fascist Colombia ($5.5 BILLION in Bush/U.S. military aid), with, as Donald Rumsfeld put it, in an op-ed in WaPo last December*, "swift action" by the U.S. in support of (Bushite) "friends and allies" in South America.

The psyops are running fast and thick. Most people here think Chavez (repeatedly elected by the Venezuelan people, in an election system that puts ours to shame for its transparency) is a "dictator," or maybe a "terrorist," or at least "corrupt." None of this is true, but the ground work has been laid to put us to sleep if and when they strike these democracies to regain global corporate predator control of the oil. And, frankly, there were lines in Obama's speech to the anti-Castro Miami mafia last week that make me think he might be on board for it. And, if he isn't, well, there's always Diebold & brethren to combine with corporate 'news' narratives on why he lost because he's "black" or because of Hillary, or whatever else they can think up between now and then. The Corporate Rulers are DESPERATE for oil. Beware! And the U.S. military is DESPERATE to justify its trillions in military boodle, after Iraq. Double-beware! (And they've brought the 4th Fleet out of mothballs, to patrol the coast of Venezuela!)

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*"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

[freefall]

2. The psyops campaign against Chaves and others worries me.

The reconstituting of the 4th Fleet isn't good news either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Fourth_Fleet.

And those two things combined are truly scary.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

And why aren't more DU'ers paying attention to this?


Peace,

freefall

[Echo In Light]

3. Scott Ritter has been sounding the warning bell on this for some time

http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx0505b08

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53624§ionid=351020101

No one bothered listening to him during the grotesque parade of justifications leading up to the Iraq invasion either. Paula Zahn {CNN} accused him of "drinking Saddam's Kool Aid."