Juan Cole explains it all for you:
Iran has 150 billion barrels in petroleum reserves, among the largest reserves in the world, but they cannot be exploited by US corporations because of Israel lobby-inspired US congressional sanctions on Iran. US elites, especially Big Oil, dream of doing regime change in Iran so as to get access to those vast reserves. Likely the most important US objection to the Iranian civilian nuclear enrichment program is that it could give Iran “nuclear latency,” the ability to construct a bomb quickly if it seemed to Tehran that the US planned to attack. That is, the real objection in Washington to Iranian nuclear know-how is that it makes Iraq-style regime change impossible and so puts Iranian petroleum out of reach of Houston for the foreseeable future. This consideration is likely the real reason that Washington does not, so to speak, go ballistic about North Korea and Pakistan having actual nuclear warheads, but like to has a fainting spell at the very idea of Iran enriching uranium to 3.5 percent (a bomb takes 95%). North Korea and Pakistan don’t have oil.
Cheaper just to buy the oil from Iran, but that wouldn’t keep the treasure flowing to the American war machine.
What! US foreign policy decided by Israel and Oil-rich 1%’ers! I’m shocked! Shocked! How can we get our children to die for such crass reasons?
Major Kong, first it’s good to find you in your pajamas sitting in your Mom’s basement communicating with us on your computer machine and not having any impact whatsoever on how the outside world operates. You know, like the rest of us are doing.
Secondly, since bin Laden was assassinated— and the evidence suggests that he was ratted out by one of his own— and al-Zawahiri took over, al Qaeda has aligned itself with the U.S. and NATO on several occasions. In Libya, in Syria, in Egypt and now in Afghanistan by pushing the Taliban to make a deal with NATO so that western military forces can be withdrawn more quickly (plus there’s no oil in Afghanistan). Which begs the question of whether bin Laden’s assassination was simply regime change? Replacing the virulent anti-American bin Laden with the less belligerent and more co-operative Zawahiri?
There is considerable evidence, Im, that al Qaeda has always been allied with NATO and the US. bin Laden was our butt-boy for many years and there is no reason to think his successors (if any) are any different.
Love y’alls analogies re: butt boyz, and such. No telling yet what goodies the CIA has in store for the old Mujahaadeen/al Qaeda groupies.
And,…..although still widely denied that 911 was an inside job—— if it is acceptied today that the CIA and al Qaeda have “rebonded” for whatever reasons—–then how can we NOT deny, at least the possibility, that 911 WAS, in fact, an inside job?
The truth will eventually set us free. May take, what?, 50 years or so to unseal the truth?
–then how can we NOT deny, at least the possibility, that 911 WAS, in fact, an inside job?
The truth will eventually set us free. May take, what?, 50 years or so to unseal the truth?
Well, we’re more than 48 years past the JFK assassination, and there’s no trace of closure on that in sight.
There’s no doubt whatever that 9/11 was an inside job.