Banging the Drums of War: Is AIPAC Making the “Arab” Case for an Attack on Iran?..............
”Whatever information the CIA obtained from Amiri is supposedly being incorporated into a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program–an estimate that was supposed to be released earlier this year but which, according to Newsweek, will probably be delayed for several more months. The delay strongly suggests that the Intelligence Community cannot reach a consensus on whether and how to revise the previous NIE on Iranian nuclear matters, released in December 2007–which famously concluded that Iran had stopped working on purely weapons-related aspects of its nuclear program in 2003. ….....”
It is true, there have been an increasing number of “reports” and editorials that incorporate the idea that Arab countries are in support of an attack on Iran although they dare not say it publicly. From the Washington Times to writers in the Atlantic to writers from the Saban Center (no surprise there) to Joe Klein of Time (a surprise): they are stressing that the Arabs want a war, they have bought this recent idea.
By Arab countries they mean some Persian Gulf states, sparsely populated mostly by foreign expatriates, and specifically the oligarchies in two or three (including perhaps Saudi Arabian princes and increasingly the ruling shaikhs of the UAE). That Gulf oligarchies are clamoring for Americans or Israelis or both to start yet another war on their behalf. Presumably they will be willing to foot the bill of that war, either directly or through more creative means. The rest of the vast Arab world, not encumbered with the sectarian issues of the Gulf states, does not see it that way. The Jordanian oligarchy may also go along: it did support Saddam Hussein’s two wars (against Iran and Kuwait), it is a repeat offender.
Still, the drums of war are getting louder. This is disturbing, especially since the drums are being banged by people who have never fought a war, be they Americans or denizens of AIPAC or some absolute Arab oligarchs of the Persian Gulf states.
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