{"id":40442,"date":"2018-11-12T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40442"},"modified":"2018-11-12T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:44:09","slug":"president-trumps-iran-policy-is-it-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40442","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s Iran Policy \u2013 Is It \u2018Normal\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s Iran Policy \u2013 Is It \u2018Normal\u2019?<\/a><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was called a \u201cliberation.\u201d The 2011 US-led destruction of Libya was a \u201chumanitarian intervention.\u201d And so on.<\/p>\n

So, in a way, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was refreshingly honest last week when, speaking about newly-imposed US sanctions, he told the BBC that the Iranian leadership \u201chas to make a decision that they want their people to eat.” It was an honest admission that new US sanctions are designed to starve Iranians unless the Iranian leadership accepts US demands.<\/p>\n

His statement also reveals the lengths to which the neocons are willing to go to get their \u201cregime change\u201d in Iran. Just like then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it was \u201cworth it\u201d that half a million Iraqi children died because of our sanctions on that country, Pompeo is letting us know that a few million dead Iranians is also \u201cworth it\u201d if the government in Tehran can be overthrown.<\/p>\n

The US Secretary of State has demanded that Iran \u201cact like a normal country\u201d or the US would continue its pressure until Iran\u2019s economy crumbles. How twisted is US foreign policy that Washington considers it \u201cnormal\u201d to impose sanctions specifically designed to make life miserable \u2013 or worse \u2013 for civilians!<\/p>\n

Is it normal to threaten millions of people with starvation if their leaders refuse to bow down to US demands? Is the neoconservative obsession with regime change \u201cnormal\u201d behavior? Is training and arming al-Qaeda in Syria to overthrow Assad \u201cnormal\u201d behavior? If so, then perhaps Washington\u2019s neocons have a point. As Iran is not imposing sanctions, is not invading its neighbors, is not threatening to starve millions of Americans unless Washington is \u201cregime-changed,\u201d perhaps Iran is not acting \u201cnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s Iran Policy \u2013 Is It \u2018Normal\u2019? It\u2019s not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was called a \u201cliberation.\u201d The 2011 US-led destruction of Libya was a \u201chumanitarian intervention.\u201d And so on. So, in a way, Secretary of State Mike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7844,1997,441,442,484,15128,692,14830,701,776,827,1174,843,865,901],"class_list":["post-40442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-libya","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-ron-paul","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-us-government","tag-washington","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40442\/revisions\/40443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}