The United States and Saudi Arabia are busy traipsing around the site of the attack by Houthi forces, and of course we know that they are looking for a way to connect the attack to Iran. We also know what the outcome will be: some piece of evidence planted at the scene will be used to point the finger at Iran. It will be paraded around corporate news broadcasts, New York Times “think pieces” will be written, and the Political Class will speak as one voice: “It must be war”. It has happened so much during the past two decades that there is no way to trust its accuracy. Each war that the U.S. has launched since 2001 has been preceded by fabricated evidence. From Iraq, to Libya, Syria, etc., it is painfully clear that the U.S. and its twin satellites of Israel and Saudi Arabia will do anything to get a war going. How does anyone take seriously this garbage anymore? If Iran is attacked, it will be a crime against the human race. It will be the mass murder of the innocent people of a beautiful culture, who have already had to suffer at the hands of U.S. imperialism for years through sanctions, but also through various petty acts designed to inconvenience and embarrass the nation.
Let’s be clear: the Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia because the Saudi’s have been committing a genocide in Yemen for several years with the aid of the U.S. military. It’s called blowback, and it is the logical outcome of murdering innocents abroad. Considering the depth of the evil committed against Yemen, the Saudi attack is probably mild compared to what might come in the future. But the reason for the attack is easy to understand.
The crime soon to be committed against Iran does not have to happen. Those soon to die don’t need to. They can be spared, so why won’t they? That goes for Iranians, Americans, Saudis, and Israelis. But because the latter three have decided that their tripartite rule over the Mideast is too valuable to allow and independent, albeit peaceful, nation like Iran to exist without punishment. So punishment will be meted out, many will die, and the dragon’s teeth sown will produce another two decades of continuous war.
It will not be a cakewalk. As bad as Iraq was, this will be far worse. The United States will be an invading force yet again, but the death toll will be far higher. It might be a war with real casualties here at home. Americans think wistfully and romantically about war, because those wars are never fought within their borders. That would probably change during a war with Iran, but once that happens, once American citizens are dying on American soil at the hands of foreign power, it will long be too late to cease the conflict.
