{"id":626,"date":"2009-10-23T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2009-10-23T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:59:59","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-pretend-iran-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"LET\u2019S PRETEND IRAN STOPPED"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the idea is, we pretend Iran is really going to play by the rules and politely accept that Russia and France will enrich their uranium for them. We will also pretend Iran will stop it\u2019s avid march toward nuclear weaponisation. Then we will pretend to be surprised.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Let's<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nAny situation in which the very last party expected to sign on to an agreement is the aggressor is plainly a false situation. If we are \u2018hoping\u2019 for peace we are waiting for war.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some ways, it really doesn\u2019t matter what we do, while it also doesn\u2019t matter what happens. The outcome remains the same: Iran will declare itself offended by the accusations of its intended victims and will blame\u00a0its victims for provoking the inevitable \u2018retribution\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

So the other, equally inevitable, outcome is a conflict in which at least one party must end up completely incapable even of defence, much less aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n

This brings us to the banal question.<\/span><\/p>\n

What will the West require as justification either to defend itself or to annihilate all opposition? You, for instance: At what point will you leave off from reading this and declare yourself committed to defence, or even to victory?<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh. You think it won\u2019t come to that.<\/span><\/p>\n

It did.<\/span><\/p>\n

Went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the idea is, we pretend Iran is really going to play by the rules – Then we will pretend to be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,38,41,51,91,92,113,124,163,197,199,201,202,203,211,268,280,349,362,369,375],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-went","tag-ahmadinejad","tag-arab-lies","tag-arab-war","tag-banal","tag-civilisation","tag-civilization","tag-destruction","tag-east-versus-west","tag-global-war","tag-iran","tag-iran-missile","tag-islam","tag-islamic-jihad","tag-israel","tag-jihad","tag-nuclear-enrichment","tag-peace","tag-the-big-lie","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wenublog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}