Attack Iran movement again stirring?
Here’s a new piece at Salon re the prospects for an Israeli and/or American attack on Iran.
April 2008 was often mentioned last year by Israeli authorities as the Point of No Return beyond which they (said they) believed they were at risk from the Iranian enrichment program they (said they) believed was still in progress.
The Salon piece features a former (?) Mossadist who scoffs at the shocking US National Intelligence Estimate from the early winter that “found” that the Iranian nuke weapons program, such as it was, had ceased in 2003.
I’ve wondered aloud recently if the sudden and sharp reversal in the price of oil in the past weeks might have something to do with Iran and the approach of the April deadline.
(Oil, recall, had plummeted in early February — the dead of winter — from $100 to $87, with many industry pundits looking for $70, on the theory that the US (and perhaps European) recession meant that oil demand worldwide would plummet. But three weeks ago the trend reversed, despite worsening economic news, to close yesterday at an all time high over $105 per barrel, with the likes of Goldman Sachs raising its target to $150.)
The Salon story offers evidence that McCain sympathizes with the militarists in Israel. With not only the US economy but also the western finance system melting, melting, I wonder if the only way the American-Israeli war party will be able to keep a GOPher in the Oval Office may be to set the world aflame anew before November.
