Asia Times correspondent "Spengler" argues that, for Washington, an
Israeli attack on Iran might not be a bad thing.
...consider the possibility that
all-out regional war is the optimal outcome for
American interests. An Israeli strike on Iran that
achieved even limited success - a two-year delay
in Iran's nuclear weapons development - would
arrest America's precipitous decline as a
superpower.
Absent an Israeli strike,
America faces:
A nuclear-armed Iran;
Iraq's continued drift towards alliance with
Iran;
An overtly hostile regime in Egypt, where the
Muslim Brotherhood government will lean on
jihadist elements to divert attention from the
country's economic collapse;
An Egyptian war with Libya for oil and with
Sudan for water;
A radical Sunni regime controlling most of
Syria, facing off an Iran-allied Alawistan
ensconced in the coastal mountains;
A de facto or de jure Muslim Brotherhood
takeover of the Kingdom of Jordan;
A campaign of subversion against the Saudi
monarchy by Iran through Shi'ites in Eastern
Province and by the Muslim Brotherhood internally;
A weakened and perhaps imploding Turkey
struggling with its Kurdish population and the
emergence of Syrian Kurds as a wild card;
A Taliban-dominated Afghanistan; and
Radicalized Islamic regimes in Libya and
Tunisia.
Saudi Arabia is the biggest loser
in the emerging Middle East configuration, and
Russia is the biggest winner. Europe and Japan
have concluded that America has abandoned its
long-standing commitment to the security of energy
supplies in the Persian Gulf by throwing the Saudi
monarchy under the bus, and have quietly shifted
their energy planning towards Russia. Little of
this line of thinking will appear in the news
media, but the reorientation towards Moscow is
underway nonetheless.
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3 comments:
An attack on Iran will be disastrous for America. Chinese may benefit the most and maybe that is why they’re promoting it.
This could be where imperial America comes undone. Washington is too divided, too distracted, to implement a cohesive policy for the Middle East. It's over.
It might solve the Zionist-Palestinian problem. There would be lots of land for the few surviving folks, though it might be paved with glass and somewhat radioactive.
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