Bombeflørt på Minerva?

En internasjonal måling viser bred støtte for militære aksjoner mot Iran, i følge tall gjengitt av Snoen. Et Iran ledet av Ahmadinejad med atomvåpen er en så overhengende fare for Israel og freden i regionen at et militært angrep kan bli nødvendig i løpet av et år eller to, skrev Snoen for noen år siden.

Dette er et ekko av tidligere tiders krigshissing, men det virker som folk nekter å lære av historien. Det er knapt noen uenighet om at Irak-krigen var basert på en store pakke løgn, dertil var krigen en katastrofe for landet. Også den gangen ble det snakket om hvor farlig Saddam var for nabolandene. Det er vel så grunnleggende folkerettslige og moralske problemer ved et eventuelt angre på Iran i og med at det vil dreie seg om et preventivt angrep - ikke et preemptive (forkjøps) angrep.

Les heller Robert Fisks bitende kommentarer, feks denne:

... the little men dressed up in the clothes of dead titans. Bush and Blair thought they were Churchills or Roosevelts. They flaunted themselves along with Aznar of Spain as the Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin; though I never discovered which of them was supposed to play the Soviet mass-murderer, as they conspired in the Azores for war. ... They were the quick-fix men, the instant statesmen, the guys who had handle on war. ... For this was to be an ideological war. From its creation by the loonies of the American right - as a pro-Israeli policy to aid Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu - and then foisted on Bush, to the hell-disaster that Iraq now represents, the real war had to be turned into myth; nightmares into dreams; destruction into hope; terrible truths into profound mendacity.

Eller denne (Independent 29 nov 2001):

Over the past 50 years, we sat on our moral pedestal and lectured the Chinese and the Soviets, the Arabs and the Africans, about human rights. We pronounced on the human-rights crimes of Bosnians and Croatians and Serbs. We put many of them in the dock, just as we did the Nazis at Nuremberg. Thousands of dossiers were produced, describing –in nauseous detail–the secret courts and death squads and torture and extra judicial executions carried out by rogue states and pathological dictators. Quite right too. ...Yet suddenly, after 11 September, we went mad. 

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So coming soon to a war near you; oceans of blood, bodies torn to shreds, of course. But bring your credit card. Or a cheque book. It's big business. And there may be profits.