Stupid Senate Resolution Preludes War With Iran

Stupid Senate Resolution Preludes War With Iran

The US Senate voted 90-1 early Saturday on a stupid non-binding resolution to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Our beloved senator Rand Paul, laments the stupid bill is a de-facto declaration of war. Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, considers the 90 stupid sanators warmongers. Rand Paul is the only sanator with cool head who voted against the stupid resolution. http://venitism.blogspot.com

The hoodwink about imaginary weapons of mass destruction is a weapon of mass distraction! We've seen this cry-wolf before for Iraq, and we see it now again for Iran. Warmongers cannot fool hoi polloi all time. Libertarians believe in a noninterventionist foreign policy. American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries, and a steady diet of war propaganda. American military overstretch is undermining American national defense and bankrupting USA.

The stupid measure, introduced by Senators Lindsey Graham, Bob Casey, and Joe Lieberman, supports continuing to pressure Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program. The stupid resolution advocates using methods other than containment to stop Iran, including exerting economic and diplomatic pressure.

Kleptocrats promote the elitist, racist, and war-causing Wilsonian doctrine of intervening abroad to impose democracy and Western culture on foreigners at the point of bayonets. Ron Paul points out that unfortunately, when presidents misuse our military on an unprecedented scale – and Congress lets them get away with it – the resulting stress causes military suicides to increase dramatically, both among active duty and retired service members. In fact, military deaths from suicide far outnumber combat deaths. http://venitism.blogspot.com

The bill states that it should not be misinterpreted as an endorsement for military force or war. But as the only senator to vote against the resolution, Paul argued that the resolution would eventually lead to war with Iran. Rand Paul says a vote for this resolution is a vote for the concept of preemptive war.

The real solution to foreign conflicts is for us to end all foreign aid, stop arming foreign countries, encourage peaceful diplomatic resolutions to conflicts, and disengage militarily. In others words, follow Jefferson's admonition: Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

Netanyahu hoodwinks Uncle Sam for an answer as to what would prompt a US-led military strike against Iran. Netanyahu is pushing not only for Obama's acceptance of whatever action Israel decides to take but for stronger language against Iran that goes beyond the all-options-are-on-the table mantra. But Obama has been working to convince Netanyahu that a go-it-alone attack would cause only a temporary setback to Tehran's nuclear ambitions while plunging the already-volatile Middle East into chaos. An explicit American military threat would be counterproductive right now, especially due to the potential for further spikes in global oil prices.

Hermann Goering used to say the people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

General Mohammad Ali Jafari, Iran's highest military official, warns that war with Israel is inevitable. His comments come as Israeli forces threaten to launch airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Jafari says a war between Israel and Iran will eventually happen, and that the Jewish state will be destroyed as a consequence.

Ron Paul points out that many people have the misconception that sanctions are an effective means to encourage a change of behavior in another country without war. However, imposing sanctions and blockades are not only an act of war according to international law, they are most often the first step toward a real war starting with a bombing campaign. Sanctions were the first step in our wars against Iraq and Libya, and now more sanctions planned against Syria and Iran are leading down the same destructive path.

Jafari declares that if Israel began aggression, it will spell its destruction and will be the end of the story. Netanyahu threatens a pre-emptive airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which Israel believes are aimed at expanding Iran's atomic weapon capabilities.

Netanyahu will not go as far as providing assurances that Israel will consult Washington - its biggest source of military assistance, before launching any strikes on Iran, which has called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Anyone who thinks that Israel is not going to make its own decision, particularly on an issue they view in existential terms, is kidding himself.

According to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Unfortunately, US foreign policy has boxed Iran into a corner where they may view development of a nuclear weapon as the only way to maintain sovereignty. They are surrounded by unfriendly nuclear powers and history has shown that having a nuclear weapon is the best way to avoid being bombed or invaded. The unintended consequences of our confrontational policies toward Iran may be to actually encourage them to seek nuclear weapons capabilities. We should be using diplomacy rather than threats and hostility.

The noise from Israel over a possible strike is geared more toward pressuring the international community for further sanctions than foreshadowing an imminent attack on Iran. Netanyahu would prefer to see a Republican take control of the White House in 2013 for fear that Obama's re-election would give him a freer hand to push anew for Israeli concessions to the Palestinians during a second term.

Jafari says Iran needs to ensure it reached the highest military capability possible in case Israel acted irrationally and launched an attack. In 1981 Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor and launched a similar strike against Syria in 2007. It has threatened to do the same to Iran if it fails to cease stockpiling what it says are nuclear weapons for war.

Jafari says: The shameful and cancerous tumour that is Israel is seeking war against us, but it is not known when that war will happen. They now consider war as the only way to confront us, but they are so stupid that their American masters should stop them.

Michael Scheuer points out Washington, Tel Aviv, and London are
already conducting a lethal, covert-action war inside Iran which is killing
Iranian nuclear scientists and destroying nuclear-related facilities, as well as
trying to goad Tehran into reacting with violence and thereby give the West a
casus belli. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Such a war would be a financial and military disaster for the
United States, and would be watched with glee by Russian and Chinese leaders who
— while their countries would lose some trade with Iran during a war — would
applaud another U.S. self-inflicted wound which further erodes the already
failing economy that is the base of American power.

Moreover, if U.S. political leaders would not permit the U.S. military to defeat Afghan and Iraqi mujahedin armed with Korean War-vintage weapons, they surely will not allow the military to defeat a much better armed nation-state like Iran. Thus we would have yet another politically imposed defeat for the U.S. military. http://venitism.blogspot.com


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