Interestingly, Martin Van Creveld, an Israeli strategist have admitted that he will be doing the same things if he was in Ahmadinejad’s position…

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/zionist-regime-hiding-behind-iranian-threat/

Life in the land of American Mythology is over! Welcome to Reality, Square One.

Now, sit down, shut up, and wait until they come and tell you where to go.

The Free Ride is over, and this is where the skin meets the cutting edges.

Abandon all hope ye who pass through these portals.

Earlaiman

The United States: “A voice without a people,for a people without a voice.”

May the ideals of Thomas Jefferson rest in Peace.

They won’t, but that is a nice sentiment, anyway.

Earlaiman

Wake up already, it is time for a clean house and a new America, the one that is built on morals, ethics, care, freedom and compassion. Not built on greed, money, hate, and racism. I miss the old America, how things were, it was safe and people were kind. Now thanks to TV and bias media, homosexuality is flaunted as if it is the norm, killing and torture is legitimized and freedom of speech is muffled.

Q:) With the U.S. on the brink of war in Iran for Israel, and the potential ‘blow back’ to Israel and the U.S. for attacking Iran, which of course will be based on pretenses and lies as usual, just HOW DOES ISRAEL THINK THEY CAN WEATHER THE STORM IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS ATTACK ON IRAN??”

The reason I ask you this question, is that you perhaps better than a lot of us, may have an answer that makes the most sense, if any answer could make any sense here. From my viewpoint, the about to happen attack on Iran by Israel and the U.S. will have to be thermonuclear in nature, and this means, that the U.S. will have to use tactical nuclear weapons on more than a handful of Iranian targets in Teheran and outlying areas where their facilities are known to be. In light of this, I do not see the rest of the Arab world sitting idly by in the aftermath of such an attack without forming alliances and then counter-attacking Israeli cities and American forces wherever they may find them.

Let’s face it, the U.S. so far is the ONLY nation on this earth that has used nuclear weapons on anyone, and unbelievably as this may sound, both times were wholly unjustifiable and, in fact, WAR CRIMES.

So, second part of the question then is; “how does the rest of the world square itself in the aftermath of a THIRD U.S. NUCLEAR STRIKE on yet one more country that ostensibly has not posed a threat to either the U.S., or Israel, as it is a signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, and it is in total compliance of that, and yet the U.S. and Israel will in fact, attack without just cause.

Your comments are appreciated, Mr. Petras! Thank you for the excellent article, by the way!

A. That is what he does as a passtime in his profession… write books on what he knows about.

Yes, Prof. Petras is good. We have known that for sometime now.

James Petras does not only have a PhD, as the other guys do, but he is a professional academic and Professor who actually teaches, and runs constant research programs in what he does which, for Petras, is political analyses of the situations in and the relationship in other places.

He may be a South American Scholar, but political BS in one place is pretty much like political BS in any other, and nothing is really happening in the ME between Israel and Palestine which has not happened on one scale or another, greater or smaller, elsewhere, and many of times.

Only the scale, the accessibility to the information, and the graphics might change, but the underlying principles are the same… power, real-estate, dominance, resources, money and how many you may have to kill to achieve your objectives… as well as how you kill them I suppose.

The index of his new book look like he is playing-on all 88 keys, including the black ones as well.

Good for him.

–Debbie.