US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in Bahrain this weekend, trying to convince them, and by extension the Gulf alliance, that the US is going to counter everything he accused Iran of doing.
This started with lip service to Iran’s civilian nuclear program, saying the US is committed to a diplomatic outcome. Austin added that the US would never allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.
Not mentioned is that Iran is plainly not seeking nuclear weapons. With the Gulf nations and Israel both gearing up for military action, they want the US to echo the false conclusions they made long ago.
Austin also lashed Iran’s “dangerous” export of drones to its allies across the Middle East. This, too, ignored that the United States is also exporting attack drones to its own partners in the region.
Austin added that “our friends and foes both know that the United States can deploy overwhelming force at the time and place of our choosing.” Israel and the Gulf states are both well aware of that, and have been trying to connive a way to get the US to launch such a war.
Iraq also was not seeking nuclear weapons.
The United States attacked it anyway on the basis of lies. Of c0urse, the Israeli government at the time encouraged this, even sending Netanyahu to the US Congress to urge war.
At the time, the US MSM insisted that Israeli intelligence was all-seeing, all-knowing. Netanyahu declared that Iraq was only months away from The Bomb and that the United States must attack now.
ALL LIES.
Does anything any American official say even matter? It’s all beginning to seem like a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. It’s just chatter.
Everybody who has drones is spreading them around the Middle East and North Africa. Even Turkey has a lot of drones it is using and selling. Russia and China of course are very active.
So what if Iran sells a few too? What harm can that do? It is not like their drones are any better or more dangerous than the others.
It’s becoming so popular, I’m thinking about getting some drones too! Of course, as a peace activist, my drones will have smiley faces on them and instead of blowing things up, my drones will hand out candy. In essence, I will not be spreading war but I might be responsible for some decaying teeth…
Wealthy dentists instead of wealthy death merchants. Sounds good to me.
This gave me a lovely chuckle! Thank you!
“America’s top defense official vowed Saturday to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to counter its “dangerous use” of suicide drones in the wider Mideast”
Yes because someday, they too, may be responsible for killing as many innocents as the US does. And coming a couple months after the US wasted an entire family, including 7 children, it takes a large set of balls to talk about other country’s “dangerous use” of drones. Along with the recent admission(sort of)of the massacre in Syria in which a 500 lb bomb and two 2,000 lbs bombs turned 80 human beings into “pink mist”. Austin has made his mark as a truly clueless kiss ass. If only karma existed this vile piece of shit would get his comeuppance.
Meanwhile he pretends Israel doesn’t have nukes and is not in violation of the American Symington & Glenn Act which prohibits foreign Aid to countries with clandestine nuclear weapons programs.
How do we counter the US?