It occurs to me that if the US declares Iranian special forces terrorists, another country is then free to call US special forces terrorists. It’s like torture – if the US does it, then every one else can do it without penalty using the US as their example.
They are describing America for the rest of the world and the result is not pretty.
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Cause and effect. Thinking things through. Obviously these traits are missing from the Republican mindset. Which leads me to wonder if all programmers are actually Democrats (in spirit if not actually registered)?
A lot of the guys I’ve worked with tended to be libertarians until they realized that the boom wasn’t going to last for ever, then they moved left.
You really have to work at it to fool a CPU, and then it’s only a construct. Reality and testing are the only ways you can stabilize a program.
When I was working as an analyst in the military I would have to explain repeatedly that I wasn’t interested in what the US doctrine was, or how the US would react. My target was the Soviet military and I had to know how it would react. The Soviets did things for their own reasons. I could understand some of their reasons, but others were a total mystery. They were slavishly consistent which made understanding them easy for me, but then I had to convince my side.
These people just don’t bother to notice where their actions are going, and what other people are going to do. Every problem we have in the region can be traced back to some earlier US decision. Our government has the shortest attention span and weakest grasp of history in the world.
In effect he just declared war on Iran.
Actually, he’s hoping to arrange a false flag incident, but the Iranians have been playing this game for thousands of years, and are not apt to take the bait.
The Grand Ayatollah makes the decisions about the military, not the ranting fool of a President.
Indeed. That same thought occurred to me as I listened to Philip Zelikow on (the increasingly right-wing) NPR last night. Visions of the invasion, our bombing, our killing of over a hundred of thousand Iranians, our cynical capture of five Iranian diplomats in their public offices, etc. etc. came to me just as he was saying —
Our government-sponsored agencies are “freedom fighters.” Their government-sponsored agencies are terrorists.
No one should be fooled by this Newspeak. No one is, except too many Americans.
It would be quite so hypocritical if the CIA hadn’t been working hand-in-glove with the Quds in northern Iraq with the Kurds and Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance. US Special Forces worked with the Northern Alliance and Quds in the push against the Taliban and everyone in the region knows it.
The only people who are fooled by this stupidity are Americans. They rest of the world knows what is going on.