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Neocon Says Obama
Should Save Presidency By Attacking Iran
Compares notion of Obama bombing Iran to political
impact of 9/11
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Neoconservative commentator and scholar has stated that Obama
can save his presidency and turn around his plummeting approval
ratings by bombing Iran.
Pro-war fanatic Daniel Pipes, has penned a despicable piece
on conservative website National
Review Online, calling for preemptive airstrikes
on Iran's nuclear facilities.
"Here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering
administration by taking a step that protects the United States
and its allies," Pipes writes.
"He needs a dramatic gesture to change the public perception
of him as a light-weight, bumbling ideologue, preferably in
an arena where the stakes are high, where he can take charge,
and where he can trump expectations."
"Such an opportunity does exist," Pipes adds. "Obama
can give orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran’s
nuclear-weapon capacity."
"Just as 9/11 caused voters to forget George W. Bush’s
meandering early months, a strike on Iranian facilities would
dispatch Obama’s feckless first year down the memory hole
and transform the domestic political scene," he continues.
"It would sideline health care,' he continues, "prompt
Republicans to work with Democrats, make netroots squeal, independents
reconsider, and conservatives swoon." Pipes states.
Pipes was a staunch supporter of the Vietnam war and a strong
advocate for the invasion of Iraq. He is also supports Israel
in the Arab-Israeli conflict and is completely opposed to any
form of Palestinian state.
Despite this, Pipes, who rejects the term "neocon",
referring to himself as "plain conservative", was
nominated to the board of the United States Institute of Peace
by George W. Bush in 2003.
He is also the head of a think tank named the Middle East Forum,
and its website Campus Watch, which has been fiercely criticized
as anti-Islamic. Campus Watch was also accused of "McCarthyesque
intimidation" of professors who criticized Israel when
it published "dossiers" on eight professors it thought
"hostile" to America.
With regards to Iran, Pipes has advocated that the U.S. "unleash"
the right-wing terrorist organization Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK)
against Iran. It is well known that that MEK has
direct ties to the CIA, and there
is already evidence relating to use of the group
against Iran in covert operations.
Pipes occupies a
long list of neocon policy wonks and academics
who share the same fetish for more war and more terrorism in
the name of "uniting the country", seemingly unphased
by the complete ignorance of their comments and the depth of
their depravity.
The past few days have seen an intensification in rhetoric
regarding the geopolitical situation in the Persian Gulf. Last
week Obama warned Iran of "growing
consequences" with reference to the country's
nuclear ambitions.
The Iranian government then stated that the nation will deliver
a harsh blow to "global arrogance" on
February 11th, the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
The U.S. has retaliated to what it sees as Iran’s growing
missile threat by deploying
a land and sea-based missile shield to protect
American allies in the Gulf, according to administration officials.
Iran's government responded by calling the deployment a "puppet
show", adding that it represents "nothing
except a new political ploy to increase the [American] military
presence at the expense of others."
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