Mahmoudapalooza would merely be one of the more embarrassing examples of America’s right-wing’s jingoistic, xenophobic, nationalism if it wasn’t likely to get several million people killed.
While the right-wing falls all over itself to condemn Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, it should be remembered, although often it is not, that it was not Ronald Reagan or his DCI, William Casey, that conceived the plan to entice a Soviet invasion of Aghanistan and then bleed them to death using Islamic holy warriors. It was Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski who conceived that plan. He knows well that the same plan can be used to bring America to its knees.
“If we escalate the tensions, if we succumb to hysteria, if we start making threats, we are likely to stampede ourselves into a war, which most reasonable people agree would be a disaster for us,” he said.
“And just think what it would do for the United States, because it would be the United States which would be at war. We will be at war simultaneously in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And we would be stuck for the next 20 years.”
Actually, I think we’d have our credit cards (and credit rating) canceled long before 2027.
I don’t mind people protesting Ahmedinejad’s presence in our country or his appearance at Columbia University. That’s every American’s right. What I do mind is the comparisons of Iran to Nazi Germany. Iran presents no existential threat to America. They present some challenges to our hegemony in the Middle East…that is all. And the only way Iran can defeat us is if we make war on them. If we do that, we will be incapable of winning the war without betraying our own values. We’ll be faced with a choice between the difficult decision to institute a draft, militarize all aspects of our country, and attempt to occupy Iran in force…or the relatively easy choice of nuking Iran into submission.
Either way, we will have lost our way of life and any claim to the moral high ground.
The right-wingers are literally putting America, as we know it, at risk.
