The A-Historical Bret Stephens @NYT never surprises!

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Oct 02, 2024

It’s impossible for Bret Stephens to face the unpalatable reality that The West’s proxy’s Kermit Roosevelt & Anglo-Iranian Oil Company overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh, and placed the Shah in power. SAVAK (Organization of National Security and Information was the instrument of oppression and murder, Stephens ‘self-willed forgetting’ is nurtured in the Neo-Con lie, in a Tradition of Lies!

The Stage was set for ‘The Iranian Revolution’ of 1978–1979. Reader factor in the American Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as two key factors in the nurturing of ‘Islamic Radicalism’ : which is about throwing off the yoke of oppression by those ‘Radicals’, as they impinge on the Colonial Imaginations of the hallowed Post-War Liberal Order, that is in a continuing state of collapse.

Mr. Stephens is a Zionist Partisan, and not quite yet a Double-Agent. It takes patience to read through this would-be bill of attainder in a mere 815 words. The why and how of this metastasizing rebellion, of the former subjects of that Colonial Mentality, fails to register with Mr. Stephens, though it cannot surprise! I’ll provide a selection of his diatribe, with the hope that The Reader, of her own initiative, will read the complete essay?

I thought of Nasrallah’s words on Tuesday while watching images of Iranian ballistic missiles raining down on Israel, fortunately causing only slight damage, thanks mainly to Israeli and American air defenses.

But a prime goal for Iran’s nuclear ambitions is plainly in sight, especially if it receives technical help from its new best friends in Russia, China and North Korea.

As I write, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, is promising consequences for Iran’s attacks, though it isn’t yet clear what they might be.

Iran presents an utterly intolerable threat not only to Israel but also to the United States and whatever remains of the liberal international order we’re supposed to lead.

Editor: with each paragraph Mr. Stephens political hysteria leaps from the page!

There needs to be a direct and unmistakable American response. Iran currently produces many of its missiles at the Isfahan missile complex. At a minimum, Biden should order it destroyed, as a direct and proportionate response to its aggressions. There is a uranium enrichment site near Isfahan, too.

We can’t simply go on trying to thwart Iran by defensive means only — fighting not to win but merely not to lose.

Notice that the Iranians began asking for the nuclear negotiations they spurned for the past three years only once they started to fear that Trump might return to office. Bully regimes respond to the stick.

Notice that the Iranians began asking for the nuclear negotiations they spurned for the past three years only once they started to fear that Trump might return to office. Bully regimes respond to the stick.

That’s a point Americans have chosen to ignore in recent years, and not to our benefit. As Israelis consider their response to Iran’s missile outrage this week, they know they have no such luxury.


Editor: As the Zionist Faschist State continues it’s Genocide in Gaza, the Theatre of War continues its toxic expansion. While Bret Stephens continues his War Mongering from the comfort of his office! At the least The Reader can look to the bellicose Joe Alsop, who was in Asia and Korea during these Wars/Conflicts as a possible …

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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