"A glimpse of an answer lies in the fact that the post-9/11
military geostrategy of the "War on Terror" does not spring
from a position of power, but rather from entirely the
opposite. The global system has been crumbling under the
weight of its own unsustainability for many years now, and
we are fast approaching the convergence of multiple crises
that are already interacting fatally as I write. "
Original source URL:
http://infowars.com/articles/ww3/iran_uk_gov_sources_war_with_iran_is_on.htm
UK Govt Sources Confirm War With Iran Is On
Op-Ed News | July 24, 2006
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
UK Govt Sources Confirm War With Iran Is On
In the last few days, I learned from a credible and informed source that a
former senior Labour government Minister, who continues to be well-connected to
British military and security officials, confirms that Britain and the United
States
"... will go to war with Iran before the end of the year."
As we now know from similar reporting prior to the invasion of Iraq, it's quite
possible that the war planning may indeed change repeatedly, and the war may
again be postponed. In any case, it's worth noting that the information from a
former Labour Minister corroborates expert analyses suggesting that Israel, with
US and British support, is deliberately escalating the cycle of retaliation to
legitimize the imminent targeting of Iran before year's end. Let us remind
ourselves, for instance, of US Vice President Cheney's assertions recorded on
MSNBC over a year ago. He described Iran as being "right at the top of the list"
of "rogue states". He continued: "One of the concerns people have is that Israel
might do it without being asked... Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy
that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well
decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the
diplomatic mess afterwards."
But the emphasis on Israel's pre-eminent role in a prospective assault on Iran
is not accurate. Israel would rather play the role of a regional proxy force in
a US-led campaign. "Despite the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, the
Bush Administration has not reconsidered its basic long-range policy goal in the
Middle East..." reports Seymour Hersh. He quotes a former high-level US
intelligence official as follows:
"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush
Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have
the Iranian campaign. We've declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are,
are the enemy. This is the last hurrah-we've got four years, and want to come
out of this saying we won the war on terrorism."
Are these just the fanatical pipedreams of the neoconservative faction currently
occupying (literally) the White House?
Unfortunately, no. The Iraq War was one such fanatical pipedream in the late
1990s, one that Bush administration officials were eagerly ruminating over when
they were actively and directly involved in the Project for a New American
Century. But that particular pipedream is now a terrible, gruelling reality for
the Iraqi people. Despite the glaring failures of US efforts in that country,
there appears to be a serious inability to recognize the futility of attempting
the same in Iran.
The Monterey Institute for International Studies already showed nearly two years
ago in a detailed analysis that the likely consequences of a strike on Iran by
the US, Israel, or both, would be a regional conflagaration that could quickly
turn nuclear, and spiral out of control. US and Israeli planners are no doubt
aware of what could happen. Such a catastrophe would have irreversible
ramifications for the global political economy. Energy security would be in
tatters, precipitating the activation of long-standing contingency plans to
invade and occupy all the major resource-rich areas of the Middle East and
elsewhere (see my book published by Clairview, Behind the War on Terror for
references and discussion). Such action could itself trigger responses from
other major powers with fundamental interests in maintaining their own access to
regional energy supplies, such as Russia and particularly China, which has huge
interests in Iran. Simultaneously, the dollar-economy would be seriously
undermined, most likely facing imminent collapse in the context of such crises.
Which raises pertinent questions about why Britain, the US and Israel are
contemplating such a scenario as a viable way of securing their interests.
A glimpse of an answer lies in the fact that the post-9/11 military geostrategy
of the "War on Terror" does not spring from a position of power, but rather from
entirely the opposite. The global system has been crumbling under the weight of
its own unsustainability for many years now, and we are fast approaching the
convergence of multiple crises that are already interacting fatally as I write.
The peak of world oil production, of which the Bush administration is well
aware, either has already just happened, or is very close to happening. It is a
pivotal event that signals the end of the Oil Age, for all intents and purposes,
with escalating demand placing increasing pressure on dwindling supplies. Half
the world's oil reserves are, more or less, depleted, which means that it will
be technologically, geophysically, increasingly difficult to extract
conventional oil. I had a chat last week with some scientists from the Omega
Institute in Brighton, directed by my colleague and friend Graham Ennis, who
told me eloquently and powerfully what I already knew, that while a number of
climate "tipping-points" may or may not have yet been passed, we have about
10-15 years before the "tipping-point" is breached certainly and irreversibly.
Breaching that point means plunging head-first into full-scale "climate
catastrophe". Amidst this looming Armageddon of Nature, the dollar-denominated
economy itself has been teetering on the edge of spiralling collapse for the
last seven years or more. This is not idle speculation. A financial analyst as
senior as Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan's immediate predecessor as chairman of
the Federal Reserve, recently confessed "that he thought there was a 75% chance
of a currency crisis in the United States within five years."
There appears to have been a cold calculation made at senior levels within the
Anglo-American policymaking establishment: that the system is dying, but the
last remaining viable means of sustaining it remains a fundamentally military
solution designed to reconfigure and rehabilitate the system to continue to meet
the requirements of the interlocking circuits of military-corporate power and
profit.
The highly respected US whistleblower, former RAND strategic analyst Daniel
Ellsberg, who was Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense during the
Vietnam conflict and became famous after leaking the Pentagon Papers, has
already warned of his fears that in the event of "another 9/11 or a major war in
the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will
be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that
will involve massive detentions in this country, detention camps for
middle-easterners and their quote 'sympathizers', critics of the President's
policy and essentially the wiping-out of the Bill of Rights."
So is that what all the "emergency preparedness" legislation, here in the UK as
well as in the USA and in Europea, is all about? The US plans are bad enough, as
Ellsberg notes, but the plans UK scene is hardly better, prompting The Guardian
to describe the Civil Contingencies Bill (passed as an Act in 2004) as "the
greatest threat to civil liberty that any parliament is ever likely to
consider."
As global crises converge over the next few years, we the people are faced with
an unprecedented opportunity to use the growing awareness of the inherent
inhumanity and comprehensive destructiveness of the global imperial system to
establish new, viable, sustainable and humane ways of living.
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