As we have made clear before, Neutralist policy on the Middle East is simple. We don't have to be there. Until someone can persuade us that Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or Qatar is going to have a carrier fleet that can take several armies trans-ocean and land them on the Jersey Shore and proceed to take over the lower 48, there is no reason for a US presence in the ME to stop that.
Yet we lack not for hacks to go on TV swearing that we better get moving on the Persians or it is the end of the end, or something.
Someone might say, if we leave, the descendants of Cyrus would develop nukes and begin again the march west that was only stopped by the miracle of Salamis.
Well, we might want to listen to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the matter. He gave a speech at the Israeli lobby conference sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy.
The tone of his talk was how misguided a get Iran policy is. One thing he said that should give pause to those who think the beat up the Iranians project is a great idea:
... where Israel is headed: toward a massive confrontation with the various powers arrayed against it, a confrontation that will suck America in, and perhaps terminate the experiment that is Israel, and do irreparable damage to the empire that America has become.
Maybe Wilkerson is a nutter and an Iranian adventure would be, oh, I don't know, a "cakewalk." Did we hear that word in another life?
Anyway, you can read the transcript here and the video is below.
Hat tip here where I first read the article.
Again, The Neutralist wants to make clear, we do not take sides in the ME. All we want is for the United States to be left out.
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