“The
supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” - SunTzu, ancient
Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher, best known as
the author of The Art
of War, a
foundational text on strategy and tactics of war.
We
all know that war itself is expensive not just in lives lost,
injuries incurred, and of course dollars and cents spent, but also in
the public relations aspect of each side spewing what they consider
to be their own personal version of morality driven truths, with said
truths...actually said lies...being pushed ever forward courtesy of
both vocal and media written propaganda. In fact, the very nature of
war if not sold to the public as being both rightful and just can
actually undermine a given nation's pre-war claim of having attained
global leadership, or at the very least being in said leadership's
top tier pecking order.
And
no matter how hard the behind the scenes second tier players try to
hide behind ambiguity and/or selectively chosen silence, the fact
remains that in war there never really are actual winners no matter
if one side concedes to the other or not. Why so...because while the
physical fighting might finally end, the mental anguish and pain over
the multitude of blood lost remains long after peace is made and the
rebuilding of what once was commences yet again.
And
while this particular war, at times, does seem to sit on the precipice of possibly becoming a dirty (as in nuclear or biological)
played war...it is also a war whose ramifications go well beyond just
the obvious dollars and cents cost of missiles and aircraft, or even
that of lives currently being lost.
“The
only way to win World War III is to prevent it.”
– Dwight
D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president and famed World War II general.
And
to that effect President Trump has stated on more than one occasion
that one of the main objectives of our going to war with Iran was and
still is to prevent them from ever developing a nuclear weapon. And
here it's important to remember, as I previously stated in this
article, that we might well now be balancing on the shaky precipice
of what could well become a dirty war played. In fact, the threat of
a nuclear driven War III has never been as great as it is right now,
for the caged animal that is Iran still has friends in both Russia
and China...two nuclear armed countries that not only depend on Iran
for their oil, but are indeed two countries that don't really like us
at all.
So
as military
actions on all sides seems to escalate almost by the day...especially with Iran's now overtly being in direct violation of the
“Convention
on Cluster Munitions”
(CCM) international
treaty...the May 2008 treaty that prohibited all use, transfer,
production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions... for Iran is now
using “cluster
bombs” to
specifically target
Israeli civilian areas...meaning there are now two additional things
not to be ignored. First, is the fact that while Iran's military has
basically been decimated along with its political hierarchy being in
more than a bit of a shambles, Iran's extremist religious clerics do
seem to continue to hold more than just a bit of sway over a large, and still somewhat hard-line segment of the Iranian population.
And second is the all
important fact that Iran’s stockpile of 972 pounds of highly
enriched uranium...uranium enriched at 60% weapons grade which is
enough for at least 11 nuclear bombs...still has not been physically
secured by either us or by Israel. And that remains a key touch point
in the scope of how this war will eventually play out.
Why so...because not only has
our intel community said with “high
confidence” that
they know where
said uranium is, but on March 18th, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified and said to the Senate
“Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence”
that not only had Iran's nuclear enrichment programs been
“obliterated as a
result of Operation Midnight Hammer,”
but that there has been “no
efforts by Iran”
since then in regards to their trying to rebuild, let alone salvage,
what was their previous nuclear enrichment capability.
In fact, in addition to Tulsi
Gabbard's words, one Oded
Ailam, a
former head of the Mussad's Counter-terrorism Division stated that,
“the uranium might
well be effectively trapped beneath one of last summer's collapsed
underground facilities infrastructure.” In
other words, as per Ailam, the uranium is and will probably
permanently remain trapped in sealed vaults of rubble and heavily
reinforced concrete...adding that,“Extracting
enriched uranium is an engineering, logistical and chemical nightmare
that makes even the most complex operations in history look like a
school field trip.”
Makes perfect sense now
doesn't it, except for the fact that what appears to be Iran's truth
on the surface can never be trusted to actually be the truth, which
is exactly why President Trump's prime objective of preventing Iran
from ever possessing nuclear weapons is indeed rightful justification
for us having gone to war with Iran...and the naysayers...the
Democrats and wayward Republicans be damned.
“I
know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert
Einstein, theoretical
physicist whose equation E = mc2 made the atomic bomb theoretically
possible.
Simply,
this war has never really been about the economics of oil no matter
the naysayers whining, nor is it a religious war of attrition against
islam, for this war at its crux has always been about the threat a
nuclear armed Iran poses not just to Middle East peace but to us all.
And while some still say that this war is evolving into but a test of
economic endurance coupled with a show of military muscle and
strength, I say this war is actually an exercise in how “absolute
power corrupts absolutely.”
And said
accusations, at times, saw these rival factions actually engaging in
publicly displayed attacks against each other as the country was
sinking into ever deepening instability as the protests were not only
continuing to grow in number, but were being viewed worldwide as they
were happening.
In fact, as the
protesters...as the Iranian people...were begging both for help and
for freedom, we on the outside were actually bearing witness to how
“absolute power”
not
only “corrupts
absolutely,” but
how “absolute”
Khamenei's power was
in his not just in trying to merely silence dissenting voices, but in
his and his regime's power to murder...to execute...those voices as
well.
Remember, the
demanding of “absolute power” can only truly
succeed in its governance when the people's voices are permanently silenced, which thanks to both President Donald J. Trump and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not only were the Iranian people's voices
not silenced, but the voices of the ones thinking they had “absolute
power” were.
“War
is what happens when language fails.”
-
These were
the words of Canadian author Margaret Atwood. And while there
is a modicum of truth to those words, the fact remains that Iran
actually wanted this war as the regime thought itself invincible. But
the language of war...as in the bombings, the blood shed, the lives
lost, coupled with the promise of more bombings to come if and when
actual words and overtures of peace fails...is itself the very
language that rarely if ever fails, especially
now that Tehran has officially rejected Trump's ceasefire plan. Case
closed. Case closed.
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