Fool Us Twice: the Empty Case for War Against Iran
Nine propositions have been advanced to justify a pre-emptive American military strike against Iran. When supposition, exaggeration, distortion and demonization are stripped away, each proposition proves to be utterly empty as a casus belli . 1. Iran is the nerve center of an Islamo-Fascist movement that threatens international security in the same way today that Nazi Fascism did from 1933 to 1945, and that Soviet Communism did from 1946 to 1989. The nerve center of the ideologies that have spawned international Islamic terrorism in recent years is not in Iran, it is in the Pashtun regions on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is where the al Q and Taliban leadership established themselves prior to 9/11, and this is where today they flourish, organize, fund and cheer-lead for terrorist actions not only inside Pakistan and Afghanistan, but also in the Maghreb, Europe and the USA. It is from there, not from Teheran, that th...