“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.”
On May 4, 1970, students at Kent State University gathered to protest the escalation of a doomed war in Vietnam into the soveriegn nation of Cambodia. Four of them were killed by the National Guard. Eight more were wounded and one was paralyzed. Neil Young wrote a song about it. Thirty-six years later, we have again invaded a neighboring country in an effort to stave off defeat in a doomed war. And Neil Young is writing songs about it. Bush really does seem to emulate Nixon at every turn.
Asia Times tells us:
A former Iranian ambassador and Islamic Republic insider has provided intriguing details to Asia Times Online about US covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the country and toppling the regime – or preparing for an American attack.
“The Iranian accusations are true,” said Richard Sale, intelligence correspondent for United Press International, referring to charges that the US is using the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) organization and other groups to carry out cross-border operations. “But it is being done on such a small scale – a series of pinpricks – it would seem to have no strategic value at all.”
There has been a marked spike in unrest in Kurdistan, Khuzestan and Balochistan, three of Iran’s provinces with a high concentration of ethnic Kurdish, Arab and Balochi minorities respectively…
“The president hasn’t notified the Congress that American troops are operating inside Iran,” said Sam Gardiner, a retired US Army colonel who specializes in war-game scenarios. “So it’s a very serious question about the constitutional framework under which we are now conducting military operations in Iran.”
How can you run when you know?
