26 avril 2010<\/a> : une attaque de l’Iran. Au passage, Boirchgrave nous rappelle quelques bonnes r\u00e9alit\u00e9s : qu’en supprimant Saddam, les USA ont \u00e9limin\u00e9 un alli\u00e9 objectif, qu’ils ont ainsi permis \u00e0 l’Iran de devenir une grande puissance r\u00e9gionale Impressionnant chapelet d’erreurs, qui pourrait \u00eatre couronn\u00e9 par l’erreur finale d’une attaque de l’Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIraq clearly was an expensive geopolitical illusion, a weird concoction of motives inspired by neocons who thought they were making Israel more secure.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPrecisely the opposite was achieved. Seven years and $1 trillion later, Iran has more influence in Iraq than the United States. Its agents are dropping off the occasional million-dollar bundle to keep Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff sweet and compliant.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPsychologically, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is more beholden to Tehran these days than to Washington. After the United States coughed up $1 trillion it didn’t have to fight the Iraq war, Baghdad still has less electric power than it had under Saddam Hussein.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNone of our modern knuckleheaded empire builders, who thought they perceived Israel’s interests more clearly than the rest of the country, understood that Saddam, albeit a cruel dictator, was our best defense against Iranian expansionism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn 1980, Saddam had taken on the evil empire next door. But Iran’s obscurantist zealots used teenagers with golden keys to paradise to walk across Iraqi minefields, and a million dead and eight years later, the two Gulf giants fought themselves to a Mexican standoff.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe decline of the American empire may be hastened by another war in the Gulf this time triggered by Israeli and\/or U.S. bombs on Iran’s nuclear installations. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be pushing his luck by moving Iran’s frontiers to Israel’s borders – with Hezbollah to the north in Lebanon, Syria to the east and Hamas in Gaza to the south.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIran’s medieval hawks have convinced themselves that an asymmetrical Gulf war would speed up the end of what they call American imperial colonialism.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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