{"id":42933,"date":"2019-01-18T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42933"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:00:49","slug":"pompeo-the-u-s-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42933","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo, the U.S. and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pompeo, the U.S. and Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The United States\u2019 international windbag, Secretary of Defense (read: War) Mike Pompeo has been acting the imperial blowhard throughout the Middle East. With his boss busy denying that he\u2019s a Russian agent, watching advisors and cabinet members come and go with dizzying alacrity, and dodging porn-star accusations, Pompeo is trotting through the Middle East, sounding war drums.<\/p>\n

It seems that Iran, which has long been in the crosshairs of U.S. gunboat \u2018diplomacy\u2019, remains firmly targeted. In Cairo, Pompeo promised a \u201c\u2026campaign to stop Iran\u2019s malevolent influence and actions against this region and the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is with a firm shake of the head that this writer reads such statements, wondering how anyone with even a modicum of intelligence can take such pronouncements seriously. If one is to discuss \u2018malevolent influence and actions against this region and the world\u2019, shouldn\u2019t one look, first and foremost, at the United States?<\/p>\n

The U.S. currently gives unqualified support to Saudi Arabia, which is decimating the nation of Yemen. Currently, at least 10,000,000 Yemenis, most of them children, are at risk of death by starvation due to the U.S.-supported Saudi onslaught. Several weeks ago, the Saudis dropped a U.S.-made bomb on what they must have thought was a horrifying terrorist group: a school bus full of 10-year-old children. U.S. spokespeople had hardly a word to say about this. Not surprising: if 10,000,000 people at risk of starvation brings no halt to U.S. support of Saudi Arabia, what is one school bus full of little boys? Does none of this qualify as \u2018malevolent influence and actions\u2019?<\/p>\n

When discussing the U.S.\u2019s \u2018malevolent influence and actions\u2019, it is impossible not to mention\u00a0 its support of apartheid Israel\u2019s brutal, inhumane and totally illegal (under international law: remember that old thing?) treatment of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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