The Cost of Insouciance Is Death/Washington & CNN Are Setting Up Iran for Attack

 

The Cost of Insouciance Is Death

December 22, 2023 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: |  Print This Article

The Cost of Insouciance Is Death

Paul Craig Roberts

I received an email Christmas greeting from the Warden of my Oxford College.  She tells me that the money and postage the college saves on mailing Christmas cards will be donated to charity.  This is a noble thing to do.  But look what it tells us:  It tells us that we now see our obligations to strangers as a stronger claim on us than our obligations to our group.  It shows further weakening of our survivability. 

When we sum up all the forces that are damaging our survivability–feminism which has destroyed relations between men and women, deracination which has destroyed our self-confidence, our culture, and our beliefs, the normalization of sin which has destroyed our morals and our integrity, the attack on the family which has destroyed the enculturation of children–what future do we have?

It seems that Western civilization is the first one to be destroyed by its own universities and intellectuals.

We are so focused on what the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are allegedly going to do to us that we do not see what we have done to ourselves.

Washington & CNN Are Setting Up Iran for Attack

December 23, 2023 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: |  Print This Article

Washington & CNN Are Setting Up Iran for Attack

Paul Craig Roberts

The Hypocrisy of Washington and the presstitutes is outrageous. The lie machines are content with Washington supplying the bombs, missiles, and protection for Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinians but sees evil in Iran helping the Houthis, the people on whom Washington sicced the Saudis.  https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/politics/us-intelligence-iran-houthi-rebels-attacks-red-sea/index.html 

Don’t you just love the names Washington puts on its military operations.  All the warships Washington has poured into the volatile area hoping for an excuse to attack Iran are designated “Operation Prosperity Guardian,” an Orwellian use of language.

As usual Putin is trying to stay out of the situation, which means that the weight necessary to keep the situation in hand is not present.  A US attack on Iran remains the neoconservatives’ goal.  The decades long demonization of Iran has set the stage.  

Putin is a good humane leader, but he is reactive instead of proactive, and this leaves the initiative in Washington’s hands, which means war is the most likely result.