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If you did not plan for WWIII, you could not prevent it
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by YankeeJim | August 9, 2010 at 08:54 am
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Here is a revolting idea: one may have to plan for war to be able to prevent it. Then again, if you have a plan, does that increase the propensity to want to use it?
The US government, military, and intelligence communities are sophisticated and smart. Critics often act as if these agents of the US government are loose cannons, somehow, operating on their own agenda. That is not the case.
In the instance of George W. Bush and Iraq, the Iraqis had provoked the world for a long time. The USA responded and Hussein continued provocation. G W Bush, perhaps motivated by his Father’s cronies and hawkish behavior decided to knock it off. It was probably a bad call, but war with Iraq was a product of the American process.
The USA has a lot of enemies of Democracy and individual freedom to contend with, but, I would suggest that capacity is limited and so is desire for any more wars anytime soon. Only the most stupid error by Iran would trigger serious attention to plans. Even then, attacking Iran would not be without full agreement from China, Russia, and the rest of the world.
“Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 8:33 pm
Opinion: Michel ChossudovskyPreparing for World War III, Targeting Iran
Part I: Global Warfare
by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, August 1, 2010
GlobalResearch.caHumanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed.
This military adventure has been on the Pentagon's drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Iran according to a declassified 1995 US Central Command document.
Escalation is part of the military agenda. While Iran, is the next target together with Syria and Lebanon, this strategic military deployment also threatens North Korea, China and Russia.
Since 2005, the US and its allies, including America's NATO partners and Israel, have been involved in the extensive deployment and stockpiling of advanced weapons systems. The air defense systems of the US, NATO member countries and Israel are fully integrated.
This is a coordinated endeavor of the Pentagon, NATO, Israel's Defense Force (IDF), with the active military involvement of several non-NATO partner countries including the frontline Arab states (members of NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative), Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, among others. (NATO consists of 28 NATO member states Another 21 countries are members of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), The Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative include ten Arab countries plus Israel.)”
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at 11:32 on August 9th, 2010
An excellent point! Planning for war, also, does not entail a propensity to seek it, indeed no one hopes for peace more than the soldiers fighting to re-establish it. The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />US military has plans for the eventuality of going to war with, if not Iran, a nation VERY similar; they would be foolish not to. And they are not alone. Canada, renowned for pacifism and military inactivity (albeit an undeserved reputation) prepares soldiers for theoretical conflicts in various fictional nations, based on real countries which may construe a real threat. The British, Israelis, Germans, and every other western nation, no doubt do the same, or similar. In fact, prior to the invasion of Iraq a few years ago, a key US general, in charge of the enemy force in an exercise in landing troops in a semi-land-locked desert nation, found himself in trouble for his non-linear methods of fighting, because his enemy forces were winning too often. As it turned out, when war broke out with Iraq, the insights gleaned by his “fighting dirty” were invaluable. I have met US soldiers who have taken part in exercises invading nations very similar to North Korea, as well. This does not mean an invasion is in the works, or indeed it would have come many years ago. Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum, as the saying goes- he who desires peace, prepare for war.