{"id":48516,"date":"2019-09-17T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48516"},"modified":"2019-09-17T09:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:41:27","slug":"questions-not-answers-surround-u-s-push-to-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48516","title":{"rendered":"Questions, Not Answers Surround U.S. Push to War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2019\/09\/17\/questions-not-answers-surround-u-s-push-to-war-with-iran\/\">Questions, Not Answers Surround U.S. Push to War with Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthi-rebels-claim-responsibility-for-attacks-on-Saudi-oil-facilities.jpg?fit=816%2C459&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When President Trump fired National Security Adviser&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2019\/09\/10\/trump-thumping-bolton-is-a-good-start\/\">John Bolton last week rational people the world over cheered.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When there was news that Trump would meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly with Iran\u2019s President Rouhani in a few weeks there were sighs of relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Benjamin Netanyahu goes to Moscow to get Vladimir Putin\u2019s blessing to continue airstrikes in Syria and was told no, the world said, \u201cFinally! Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that there were also very powerful people who were not happy about these things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, there are a lot of nervous people out there worried that Tuesday\u2019s election in Israel will not go the way they want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of people have invested a lot of time and money in ensuring Netanyahu stays in power. And I don\u2019t just mean Bibi himself, who will likely go to jail on corruption charges if he doesn\u2019t win.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean a lot of people in the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the U.K. and in Europe, all of the places where anti-Russian, anti-Iranian and pro-Israeli sentiments abound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this brings up the main question I always have in the wake of one of these major escalations of tensions with the country currently catching the Twin Eyes of Sauron in D.C. and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do they always seem to occur right after moments of de-escalation and there\u2019s the threat of peace breaking out somewhere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is it that every time President Trump tries to push the U.S. and the world away from war within a few days there\u2019s an incident which pushes us right back to the brink of it?<\/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>Questions, Not Answers Surround U.S. Push to War with Iran When President Trump fired National Security Adviser&nbsp;John Bolton last week rational people the world over cheered.&nbsp; When there was news that Trump would meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly with Iran\u2019s President Rouhani in a few weeks there were sighs of relief. [&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":[441,1174,862],"class_list":["post-48516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48516","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=48516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48517,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48516\/revisions\/48517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}