> I don't necessarily think that, and my doubts about the "noble" urges
> driving the war talk have been posted. But for all the state violence the
> USG can be accused of, it cannot be compared to a dictatorship like
> Saddam's.
Chomsky says in a recent interview that war with Iran is probably underway. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20030108&fname=chomsky&sid=1
Chomsky:
If Iraq turns into people slaughtering each other, I could write the articles right now. 'Backward people, we tried to save them but they want to murder each other because they're dirty Arabs.' By then, I presume, I'm just guessing, they [the US] will be onto the next war, which will probably be either Syria or Iran.
The fact is that war with Iran is probably underway. It's known that about 12% of the Israeli airforce is in south eastern Turkey. They're there because they're preparing for the war against Iran.
They don't care about Iraq. Iraq they figure's a pushover, but Iran has always been a problem for Israel. It's the one country in the region that they can't handle and they've been after the US to take it on for years. According to one report, the Israeli airforce is now flying at the Iranian border for intelligence, provocation and so on. And it's not a small airforce. It's bigger than the British airforce, bigger than any NATO power other than the US. So it's probably underway. There are claims that there are efforts to stir up Azeri separatism, which makes some sense. It's what the Russians tried to do in 1946, and that would separate Iran, or what's left of Iran, from the Caspian oil producing centres. Then you could partition it. That will probably be underway at the time and then there'll be a story about how Iran's going to kill us tomorrow, so we need to get rid of them today. At least that's been the pattern." http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20030108&fname=chomsky&sid=1
Ulhas