{"id":46038,"date":"2019-05-12T06:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T11:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46038"},"modified":"2019-05-12T06:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T11:22:58","slug":"is-america-ready-for-john-boltons-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46038","title":{"rendered":"Is America Ready for John Bolton\u2019s War With Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/is-america-ready-for-john-boltons-war-with-iran\/\">Is America Ready for John Bolton\u2019s War With Iran?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iranian_military_march-554x350.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian Army in 2016. (Creative Commons\/Wikimedia)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-iran-military-pressure-john-bolton-20190505-story.html\">National Security Advisor John Bolton\u2019s announcement this week<\/a>&nbsp;that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region seemed perfectly framed to put America on a war footing with Iran. And it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claiming that the decision was made in response to \u201ca number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings,\u201d Bolton declared that \u201cthe United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime.\u201d But, he added, \u201cwe are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took the Defense Department a full day to respond to Bolton\u2019s statement, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActingSecDef\/status\/1125454376506732545\">acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan finally tweeting<\/a>&nbsp;that the \u201cannounced deployment of the @CVN_72 and a @USAirForce bomber task force to the @CENTCOM area of responsibility\u2026represents a prudent repositioning of assets in response to indications of a credible threat by Iranian regime forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shanahan followed with another tweet: \u201cWe call on the Iranian regime to cease all provocation. We will hold the Iranian regime accountable for any attack on US forces or our interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USS Abraham Lincoln battle group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/military\/2019\/05\/06\/uss-abraham-lincoln-already-on-way-to-middle-east-when-bolton-announced-its-deployment\/\">had deployed a month ago<\/a>\u00a0from its Norfolk, Virginia, home port and was recently engaged in maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea. The Pentagon acknowledged that the Abraham Lincoln was scheduled to support CENTCOM during its deployment, but that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/442556-us-sending-b-52s-to-middle-east-as-part-of-iran-response\">its arrival was being \u201caccelerated\u201d<\/a>\u00a0due to intelligence indicating an imminent Iranian threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is America Ready for John Bolton\u2019s War With Iran? Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat. Iranian Army in 2016. (Creative Commons\/Wikimedia)&nbsp; National Security Advisor John Bolton\u2019s announcement this week&nbsp;that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/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":[19998,16732,862],"class_list":["post-46038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-scott-ritter","tag-the-american-conservative","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46038","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=46038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46039,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46038\/revisions\/46039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}