Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John Rood once again emphasized what the Pentagon tends to want to emphasize lately, the possibility of a war with Iran.
Rood told reporters the US “remains concerned about potential Iranian aggression,” saying he has seen indicators that Iran might attack US targets in the Middle East. This comes amid reports the US wants to send more troops to the Middle East.
As a practical matter the US has been hyping the risk of Iranian aggression for generations, and more specifically talking up the idea in the past six months, generally to justify large troop level increases.
But beyond just justifying expenses, the talk of Iranian threats also serves itself to inflame tensions, and bolster expectations that a war is on the horizon. Moreover, it paints Iran as the aggressor when there is little question that the US would be attacking Iran, and not the other way around.
Rood’s comments echo recent ones from top generals, who portrayed US deployments as intended to prepare for a confrontation, and which they believed failed to deter Iran in any way from whatever they believe Iran might do.
Rood added that the US has privately sent “blunt signals” to Iran threatening them with consequences. These are presumably separate from the very public US threats against Iran that happen nearly constantly.
A self fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one.
Is my favorite restaurant on the list? My child’s daycare? Oh wait all these targets are in another country far far from our shores that is involved in a “warm” war with Iran. Those poor troops are being used as human shields by the horrible KSA regime.
Hey MBS is paying for them. What did the troops sign up to defend the constitution not be mercenaries for the political elite?
How dare Iranian Mullahs place their country so close to American soldiers?
Wars must have objectives. What could be the objective of war with Iran now? Regime change? Why would that be more successful in Iran than in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya?
And the winner is? China.
Those who push this think the winner will be Israel and MIC
“objectives” ? Same as every US mission, rubble cities and infrastructure, kill bunches, refugee millions, then whine and snivel about those refugees, while blab on and on about how “arabs” have been killing each other forever. Then go to church.
The only objective of WAR is to abscond resources illegally, and the U.S. with its HUGE military is the bully…..period. Way back in the 30’s General Smedley Butler wrote a book telling the tale of lies, as usual in our inverted totalitarian society, truth is quackery, the reassuring lies [spreading democracy and freedom….Muwhahaha] are reality.
hallelujah chorus-all singing from the same sheet of music, mindless sychophants!
Heaven forbid the US and Iran go to war without both sides having every conceivable preparation in place for effectively deadly combat, seems to be the attitude of this posturing. But as usual the US has to do the stupid thing so the officials can say they were right and Iran started it.
You got desperate starving backs against the wall Iranians vs the demoralized battle fatigued Emericans. Most likely, technology will be doing all the killing on their behalf.