“GOD IS ON OUR SIDE!” HE TELLS EVANGELICALS, RE: ASSASSINATION- THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE SHOUTING IN IRAN!
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That the Iranian General was assassinated at all shouts that since WW II, not one, US strategic Middle East foreign policy objective has been realized. The administration is in crisis. It was hoped that Iran’s reaction would be immediate and rash as that would ‘rationalize’ another ‘regime change’ operation thereby deflecting attention from the ongoing administration disaster.
Instead, high level Iranian officials met in Moscow to discuss the coming response. It is almost certain that Chinese [and more than likely] some European officials were also involved. Iran has many options.
As of this action, every head of state on earth, allies included, now knows that refusing Washington’s diktats paints a target on his/her back. Official policy assumes that the US administration has the right to effect extrajudicial killings of anyone on the planet for any reason whatsoever, or for no reason whatsoever. By locating the punitive rationale in future and therefore hypothetical circumstances, the reichadistration has repudiated the most fundamental juridical principles of law and order, guilt and innocence, the number or severity of crimes. These simply are not the policies of legitimate states.
And what has been the glorious response by the so-called ‘Democrat’ faction? It faults Trump’s strategy while remaining silent on the illegality of an act which constitutes a formal declaration of war. Meanwhile, the US propaganda machine justifies Qassem Suleimani’s assassination. What is more, it has no choice but to do this. NOT to acknowledge the US criminal role in this murder would require acknowledging upward of 70 years of US war crimes in the region. You don’t have much to say about that. Do you, Frank.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and more — there was not a single day in the last decade when the US was not in some or another undeclared war. Where there any strength to your alleged convictions, you would call for the systematic dismantling of the US regime and bringing its supporting ruling class faction to justice. But as a Democrat, you can’t bring yourself to draw the necessary conclusions. Since neither you nor your Party will do so, it falls to the proletarians to do it for you.
World socialist revolution begins; I expect to see it in this decade. Since the only program that can stop the inevitable drive to WW III and thermonuclear holocaust is that of the working class, you’ll have to come to a decision. You can join the Republicans, or you can join the proletarian class.
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Dear Frank Schaeffer:
That the Iranian General was assassinated at all shouts that since WW II, not one, US strategic Middle East foreign policy objective has been realized. The administration is in crisis. It was hoped that Iran’s reaction would be immediate and rash as that would ‘rationalize’ another ‘regime change’ operation thereby deflecting attention from the ongoing administration disaster.
Instead, high level Iranian officials met in Moscow to discuss the coming response. It is almost certain that Chinese [and more than likely] some European officials were also involved. Iran has many options.
As of this action, every head of state on earth, allies included, now knows that refusing Washington’s diktats paints a target on his/her back. Official policy assumes that the US administration has the right to effect extrajudicial killings of anyone on the planet for any reason whatsoever, or for no reason whatsoever. By locating the punitive rationale in future and therefore hypothetical circumstances, the reichadistration has repudiated the most fundamental juridical principles of law and order, guilt and innocence, the number or severity of crimes. These simply are not the policies of legitimate states.
And what has been the glorious response by the so-called ‘Democrat’ faction? It faults Trump’s strategy while remaining silent on the illegality of an act which constitutes a formal declaration of war. Meanwhile, the US propaganda machine justifies Qassem Suleimani’s assassination. What is more, it has no choice but to do this. NOT to acknowledge the US criminal role in this murder would require acknowledging upward of 70 years of US war crimes in the region. You don’t have much to say about that. Do you, Frank.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and more — there was not a single day in the last decade when the US was not in some or another undeclared war. Where there any strength to your alleged convictions, you would call for the systematic dismantling of the US regime and bringing its supporting ruling class faction to justice. But as a Democrat, you can’t bring yourself to draw the necessary conclusions. Since neither you nor your Party will do so, it falls to the proletarians to do it for you.
World socialist revolution begins; I expect to see it in this decade. Since the only program that can stop the inevitable drive to WW III and thermonuclear holocaust is that of the working class, you’ll have to come to a decision. You can join the Republicans, or you can join the proletarian class.
No choice is no longer an option.
Epiphany Blessings!