The war profiteers that grew rich off the War on Terror bubble of the past two decades are feeling the squeeze as the majority of Americans stumble out of the fog of that hysteria and realize that the type of war they’ve been sold has exacted a far higher toll than what they were promised: trillions of dollars in debt now saddled onto their children and grandchildren, thousands of U.S. soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands more crippled, whether physically or mentally, and an entire region laid waste. The propaganda isn’t having the same effect it used to, Americans no longer believe terrorists are hiding just around the corner, or that poor, Third World nations pose any threat to them.
Now, more often than not, Americans are of the opinion that, rather than their defender against terrorism, their own government has been the chief sponsor of terrorism worldwide, and that the primary reason terroristic hatred of the U.S. exists is due to the bombing and occupying of these poor countries. They understand that their own government has run amok across the Middle East, propping up puppet dictators, engaging in covert regime-change operations, cuddling up to Saudi and Israeli butchers, and funneling money to various shady “freedom fighters”, agglomerations of the worst thugs they can find who commence a willy-nilly murder spree for as long as the taxpayer millions flow.
All this is why no one is buying the latest war propaganda targeting Iran. No one believes Iran to truly be a threat, and it is clear to them that the toll from that war would dwarf every other conflict their government has waged in the region. Because of this sentiment, the Political Class is becoming desperate. A war with Iran, while devastating to the taxpaying class, would be enormously profitable to them, and so they’ve resorted to increasingly crass measures to sell that war here at home, while goading Iran into a first strike, one that would give the green light to Washington for an onslaught. Lining Iran’s border with troops, tanks, and drones, filling the Persian Gulf with warships, etc, Washington is doing everything it can to squeeze a reaction out of Tehran, which to its credit is exercising Olympian restraint. It’s the usual bag of tricks for a deceptive superpower utterly captured by the nexus of interests who derive their wealth from endless war.
The recent attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman has been hyped as another reason we badly need war with Iran, despite all evidence pointing to Iranian navy as the heroes: they immediately rescued the sailors of the Kokuka Courageous tanker. The president of the company even stated that he believed his ship to have been damaged by a “flying object”, not magnetic mines as the U.S. claims without evidence. That we are on the brink of war with a nation that has never attacked us, based on lies and at the behest of those with a financial interest in the war, is madness. That American and Iranian soldiers, and civilians, could die over an isolated attack on an oil tanker that has all the symptoms of a false flag is tragic.
The Oman attack is also too conveniently timed: the attack occurred as the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with the Iranian Supreme Leader to negotiate reduced tensions between Iran and the US. Fishy. Based upon the actions of our own government over the past two decades, we have every reason to distrust the rhetoric that immediately erupted from the various propaganda couriers of the Political Class regarding it as a cause for war.
“War is the health of the State”, said Randolph Bourne. War is the health of the Political Class, who reap all the benefits, while the taxpaying citizens bear the brunt: they fight the wars, pay for the wars, and exclusively suffer the consequences of the wars. The Warfare State is out of control, and it must be brought to heel before another superpower or coalition of powers does it for us.
