An American-Israeli attack on Iran is almost certain. The two articles below, the first by Flynt and Hillary Man Leverett, and the second by Eli Clifton, document the groups and media channels that are calling for war. The catastrophic course of events that a war with Iran would unleash, both in the Middle East, and globally, are hard to fathom. If both sides go all-out, the destruction that they will cause in the region is indescribable. Armageddon is the only word that comes to mind.
THE RACE FOR IRAN: WHO WILL BE BLAMED FOR A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN?
Former Bush Administration Official Heads Up Latest Astroturf Group Pushing For Attack on IranBy Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States last week was capped off today with the broadcast of a previously-taped interview on Fox New Sunday. The interview covered a range of important topics, including the state of the U.S.-Israel relationship and prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. But it is the Prime Minister’s remarks on Iran that deserve special attention—for these remarks suggest that Netanyahu is embarked on an extremely dangerous course. Netanyahu is pushing the United States to take eventual military action against Iran—a confrontation that would have predictably disastrous consequences for U.S. interests and regional stability, and for which Israel and the pro-Likud community in the United States will be blamed, because they will have led the charge to war. Such a scenario would be far more damaging to Israel and the American Jewish community than anything Iran might conceivably do.
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By Eli Clifton
No sooner did I write about the growth industry in astroturf groups promoting a U.S. or Israeli military attack on Iran than a new one sprung up on CNN. Surprisingly, the partisan connections behind this group are so thinly veiled that a two-minute examination of their domain name registration uncovered ties to the Republican Party and the George W. Bush administration.
The new group, The Emergency Committee for Israel, appears to have made its public debut on July 6th when Campbell Brown—who ironically is married to Dan Senor, who serves on the four-man board of the neoconservative The Foreign Policy Initiative—hosted Noah Pollak, its “executive director,” to discuss Obama’s recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the threat allegedly posed by Iran’s nuclear program. A transcript of their discussion can be found here.
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