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Epoch of Nuclear War Comment by Larry Ross, February 12, 2007
The US and Israel are planning a nuclear war on Iran. Other nations know of this insanity yet do nothing. Many supposedly sane Americans either know of, or are participating like cogs in a huge wheel of war. It is remarkable to witness so many people being involved in a process that can result in "an epoch of nuclear wars" even taking "the whole of mankind a step closer to total catastrophe.", as warned by Dmitriy Sedov in his essay below. The general lack of concern among knowledgeable people is staggering and incomprehensible. After the huge protests of 2003 over the coming war with Iraq , people seem to have become acclimatised, even immune, to ever-increasing corruption, chaos, death, war, kidnapping, torture, and false imprisonment. Social paralysis seems to have become a contagious disease which slowly atrophies into a rigor mortis of the body politic. We are a supposedly intelligent species - humanity - being shepherded into nuclear wars of extinction by a tiny group of evil, corrupt and war-crazed men and women. Over 99% of all species of life that have ever evolved on this planet have become extinct. Are we to be next? Since 1945 mankind has been moving closer to the brink of a self-extinction. We are doing many things (like pollution, resource depletion, global warming and accelerating arms races) to change our planetary environment and make it unliveable. Nuclear war could do it suddenly. We would be adding ourselves to previous species of life if nuclear war or "an epoch of nuclear wars" leads to "total catastrophe". Very few people try to stop or reverse it. Are we all just 'dead men walking' or zombies on a one way road to extinction? There are many things people can do to prevent this catastrophe as indicated in other articles on this site.
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A Strike on Iran would signify the by Dmitriy Sedov, Strategic Cultural Foundation (Russia), Global Research, February 10, 2007
In this context, I would like to present the following considerations. 1. An attack on Iran is motivated by nothing but the US domestic political expediency and the unlimited appetites of the country's military-industrial complex. President G. Bush has no choice – his only option is a breakthrough. The problem does not originate from the total failure of his doctrine of the “war on international terrorism”. If the US political elite represented by Bush based its decisions solely on the estimates of the damage to its public image that might be caused by the fiasco of the global anti-terrorist campaign, it would have extremely serious reservations about starting a new regional war. However, they are motivated by something else – they need to continue Bush's politics backed by a conglomerate of weapons suppliers, who established control over the country's oversized military spending. Should Bush recognize being defeated and withdraw the US military forces from the Middle East, the Democrat's elite would overtake the financial leverage, and a major redistribution of the military commissioning would follow. When such enormous funds are at stake, people's lives and those of entire nations become tokens in the game. For these operations, the destiny of the Middle East and its nations means absolutely nothing, just as the lives of the Vietnamese and the Cambodians showered with napalm and defoliants meant nothing either. One must be naïve to suppose that the Pentagon machine will stop and miss the new incredibly high profits. 2. The coming war between the US and Iran has to conform to certain parameters defined a priori. The US is tired of Iraq, and the public opinion in the country is turning increasingly anti-war. Therefore, the offensive against Iran has to be swift and victorious. This will save Bush's political group and give it a higher rating in the country. There can be no doubt that a successful aggression will make Bush extremely popular in the US – in this anti-Christian society the pagan god of victory has long taken the place of the Savior. A triumph will make the US public blind and deaf – it will remain unaware of the price of the US victory for the nations of the Middle East. The crucial circumstance is that only nuclear weapons can guarantee the US victory in this war. Knowing that the US failed to win even in Iraq, a country plagued by religious and ethnic strife, one cannot expect it to prevail in the united and spiritually strong Iran. Only the use of nuclear weapons can make it possible to cause severe damage to the Iranian control system hidden in bunkers and, importantly, to behead its leadership no matter how deep underground it might be hiding. Iran without its leaders and with a paralyzed system of control, with an army devastated by “baby nukes”, is the only option which suits the US - it agrees to talk about peace only to a totally subdued offender. Such talks would let the US leaders' old dream of a Middle Eastern Disneyland, mastered by the US and Israel, come true. |
