Prime Minister Mark Carney argues the war against Iran was justified because it halted Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. The evidence, Ted Snider writes, suggests otherwise. Iran was not building a bomb, diplomacy had already achieved major concessions, and the war inflicted immense human, economic, and environmental costs.
Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock — Will Rogers
Except he doesn’t seem to really want to commit to that. He is still making massive deals with US corporations and sharing massive data with the US, not to mention pushing through massive surveillance bills that only will benefit them.
“Nice doggy — go ahead and tear apart that stranger, it’s totally worth it. Would you like to buy some rocks?”
When Trump first attacked Iran Carney practically ran to the nearest microphone to tell us all how he thought it was just dandy. The guy has repeatedly expressed support for the war because that’s how he feels.
He’s been consistent about not talking about the world how people want it to be, but how it actually is.
Iran has a nuclear program. If Iran builds a nuke it would be very bad. They also support a lot of terrorism. Terrorism is bad.
If you strip away all of the ideological bullshit, the vibes about who’s a good guy and who’s a bad guy, all of the rationalizations about who’s historically justified in attacking who, what you’re left with is Iran being weakened means less terrorism, less terrorism means less war. It’s imperative that they are prevented from building nuclear weapons since that represents the potential for millions of people getting killed.
“The way I see the world is the truth. The way others see it is wrong. We must do things my way because what I say is true and what they say is wrong.”
People with any critical thinking dismiss that kind of bs and evaluate for themselves. It is meaningless, empty rhetoric.
The truth isn’t something you get from “evaluating” a bunch of “alt-media” websites. That’s just doing the “I did my own research on the internet”.
Nuclear physics is science. Iran’s uranium purification project is not for civilian use, it’s a nuclear weapons program. Denying this is like denying the world is flat because you choose to ignore science because you want to go along with your political allies.
The truth isn’t convenient, it’s not always going to conform to what your politcal group says.
Iran does not want nuclear weapons. If they do end up with a nuke it is entirely due to the threat it faces from Israel.
This is Trumpian logic. We don’t do X, but if we do X it’s because of our enemies.
Stated intentions are meaningless, because everyone is lying. The fact that they are purifying uranium is what matters, not what they say.
Wow. What a great metaphor.
Would be nice if it was true.