establishment<\/em> des experts aux USA, avec l’aide des m\u00e9dias bien entendu.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIndeed, it would have been appropriate for the host of NBC’s news program to whom Mullen revealed that war plans had been drawn up to ask the admiral what do you think are the likely cons\u00e9quences of an attack on Iran? Unfortunately, as for the most part they have sheepishly toed the official line, compliant US television networks have produced no meaningful debate, with pro-Israel pundits thirsting for war enjoying nearly unchallenged sway over public opinion.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe entire machinery of US print and electronic media has adopted as an article of faith that Iran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons and is getting dangerously close to acquiring the nuke capability. What should be an open question has been treated as rather moot and self-evident, with an array of experts from Harvard and other elite universities and think tanks lending authority to this conclusion, thus removing it from the realm of genuine debate. Hardly any of the experts bother to pose the question, What if we are witnessing a recycling of the run-up to the Iraq war, in other words, another WMD hype that may turn out to be false just as it was with Iraq?<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSuch disconcerting what if questions are cast away from the mainstream American discourse on Iran and, instead, we are witnessing the total absence of any Iraq lesson applied to the case of Iran, perhaps save the lessons about counterinsurgency. The unintended cons\u00e9quence of failing to learn from history is, however, that the world could be imposed upon with the horror and devastation of another war of choice that could still be avoided through prudent diplomacy from both sides of the on-going nuclear standoff.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIronically, Mullen’s statement on NBC coincided with the news from Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, that Iran had received positive signals from the Vienna Group comprising the US, Russia, France, and the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) regarding proposals for a nuclear fuel swap. Clearly, the US is playing a double-handed game with Iran, its mixed signals indicating a conflicted administration that may neutralize efforts of its own that could result in a small yet significant breakthrough via the fuel swap; efforts which can transpire only in a calm environment.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut, as the IAEA prepares the ground for a new round of Iran-Vienna group meeting, the US’s incendiary rhetoric is simultaneously poisoning the environment conducive for a nuclear breakthrough. That is one unintended cons\u00e9quence that Mullen and other US officials do not seem terribly concerned about.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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