On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:13:46 -0700, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
My theory is the whole Tom Cotton letter to Iran was a legislative trojan, and there was a coordinated psy-ops campaign to get 47 senators to sign it.
That may very well be. I came across an opening article the other day about how this whole "Obama-Netanyahu ''Fallout'' is Theater - Planned in 2009" [1]. Some of the quotes from The Brookings Institution's 2009 policy paper titled, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran," are eye popping. "..any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context— both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal." They've laid out the entire maniac war plans in plain sight for anyone curious enough to read. Problem is 'muhricans don't read, and the elite know this. [1] http://www.activistpost.com/2015/03/obama-netanyahu-fallout-is-theater.html