Wending Toward the Insanity of Total War
Friday January 20th 2006, 4:31 pm

As if to throw another poker chip in the attack Iran (and eventually Syria) ante, “Israel accused Iran and Syria on Friday of planning and funding a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that raised tension before next week’s Palestinian election,” reports Reuters. “Sharon aide Raanan Gissin told Reuters Israel had ‘ample, concrete evidence’ that the Tel Aviv bombing, for which the Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility, was bankrolled from Tehran and planned in Damascus.”

It was also a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization with a documented history of cooperating with MI6 and the CIA, but don’t expect “Reuters Israel” to mention this. Israel also “aided Hamas directly,” according to Richard Sale of UPI and Tony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic Studies, “as a counterbalance to the PLO,” that is as a way to defeat Palestinian nationalism, a more fearsome threat than Islam. It should be obvious by now that Israel, Britain, and the United States have created and selectively unleashed Islamic terrorism for decades and continue to lean heavily on this artifice now, as the Straussian plan for total war and destruction in the Middle East reaches a fever pitch.

In the past, Israel has accused Iran and Syria of complicity in suicide bombings, but with the Iran attack now front and center in a big way, it is fleshing out its claim, accusing the duo of participating in an “Axis of Terror,” an obvious take on and alignment with the Straussian neocon “Axis of Evil,” a colorful term initially contrived by Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson who refashioned David Frum’s original term “axis of hatred,” inspired, Frum admits, from old FDR speeches and Pearl Harbor (the parallel between this and PNAC’s “new Pearl Harbor” rhetoric is obvious).

“Gissin portrayed the Tel Aviv bombing as a warning to European powers considering measures against Tehran over its nuclear program,” Reuters continues. “This attack was in Tel Aviv. Tomorrow it may be in Berlin or in Paris or in London—countries that may vote against Iran on the issue of its nuclear program,” Gissin said. Not only vote against Iran, but serve it up to the Straussian neocons in the Pentagon on a silver platter, ready to be devoured by rabid chicken hawks, to the satisfaction of the Jabotinsky Likudites in Israel.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan blurred the lines further as he talked about “terrorists who are committed to a shared ideology” and then effortlessly segued into a discussion of Iran and the sort of “freedom” the Straussian neocons plan to deliver (it will be, McClellan promised, the same sort of “freedom” the Iraqis endure, viz. a freedom replete with depleted uranium, polluted water, lack of electricity, devastated hospitals, and sectarian violence).

Meanwhile, additional events do not bode well for peace and prosperity. “A defiant Iran announced Friday it has begun pulling its foreign currency accounts out of European banks to protect its assets from possible U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program,” reports the Associated Press. In short, Iran expects the worst. “As analysts estimated the amount of those funds at up to $50 billion, Iran also called for a reduction in OPEC oil production—raising the possibility that the country would deploy its oil prowess in its standoff with the West,” a prospect real enough to freak out currency investors. As well, the move may catapult oil prices astronomically upward into the $80 per barrel range as “early as this quarter,” Ashraf Laidi, chief currency analyst with MG Financial, told Reuters. Earlier today, oil prices “surged past $ 67 per barrel” and the stock market was “unnerved” by “reports that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened new attacks against the United States,” according to Sify Finance. It is of course no coincidence al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad issued rhetoric and a suicide bomb at roughly the same time.

Naturally, at the moment the rubber stamp Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran, in preparation for the Straussian neocon and Jabotinsky Likudnik attack in March, Iran will undoubtedly play the oil card. “Emboldened by strong prices and stretched global supplies, Tehran could retaliate by removing all or part of its daily crude sales of 2.4 million barrels from thirsty world markets,” reports Reuters, and “actual disruptions would be hard, if not impossible, for the world to cover with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries holding only 1.5 million barrels per day in reserve… Iran, OPEC’s second biggest producer, has warned that world oil prices would be driven higher if the U.N. slaps on sanctions.” Moreover, after the United States attacks Iran, the oil market will go into terminal shock, especially if Iran starts pinging oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz, as feared, and possibly attacking neighbor oil producing states where the U.S. military shelters.

For further details on how the Iranians will react to the coming attack, read Kaveh L Afrasiabi’s How Iran will fight back. Most troublesome, especially for the youth of America, is the following: “Iran’s counter-psychological warfare … seeks to take advantage of the ‘death-fearing’ American soldiers who typically lack a strong motivation to fight wars not necessarily in defense of the homeland. A war with Iran would definitely require establishing the draft in the US, without which it could not possibly protect its flanks in Afghanistan and Iraq; imposing the draft would mean enlisting many dissatisfied young soldiers amenable to be influenced by Iran’s own psychological warfare focusing on the lack of motivation and ‘cognitive dissonance’ of soldiers ill-doctrinated to President George W Bush’s ‘doctrine of preemption’, not to mention a proxy war for the sake of Israel.”

Of course, conscription-slavery is precisely what the Straussian neocons desire, as well as a further militarized and indoctrinated society at large, as these will be required if the interminable “clash of civilizations” crusade is to be successful. It is wise to keep in mind that these chicken hawk sociopaths envision “World War Four” and this is precisely why they are preparing to attack Iran and inflame the Muslim Middle East—to force the reality of continual war waged against the Muslim masses on the American people, who are after all, the neocons are convinced, too soft and decadent and need above all to have war and the idea of dead relatives and neighbors foisted on them in order to toughen them up for the generations of war to come, as promised by Bush and Cheney.