Re: [Marxism] al-Hakim, main Maliki ally, criticizes US detention of Iranians as violation of Iraq's sovereignty

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Yet the divide between the 
> Sunni and the Shia is now so great that I doubt if there would be a lot 
> of sympathy from Sunnis if Iran came under attack. 
It is unfortunate that, in case of an American attack, the people of Iran and 
the wider region are going to pay, yet again, for the unprincipled scheming and 
intrigues of the Iranian regime. All the prattle from that quarter about 
anti-imperialism has been shown for what it is by their toying with 
sectarianism in Iraq, and their collusion with the American occupation which 
has frequently supported the same sectarian forces.

Does anyone seriously argue that the American ruling class are going to 
suddenly come to their senses and realise at this point that, having destroyed 
the Iraqi state and lacking a social basis on which to establish a truly 
dependent client regime, they ought to simply cut their losses by withdrawing? 
On the contrary, it is obvious that the political losses they will face by 
simply withdrawing are so enormous and of such historical significance as to 
compel them to rush further into the quagmire. Hence the preparations for the 
attack on Iran, whose close ties to the Shia elite must make it, in the eyes of 
the US, a primary obstacle to the US goal of establishing a viable and supine 
client regime without the divided loyalties of the mafiosi in power now. So, a 
blitzkrieg against Iran is conceived as a way stabilise the situation for the 
occupation Iraq and, in Lebanon, to achieve that which the Israelis failed to 
do in their attack against Hezbollah in the summer.

To imagine that the US war machine is going to be stopped by reason, or an 
unexpected outbreak of sanity in the ruling quarters there, is nothing but 
wishful thinking. The stakes for the US ruling class at this point are so high 
that they won't stop until they're stopped by people of the US -- and there's 
little sign of the people being ready to do so yet. 

Lajany Otum





                
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