In arguing the Iran Oil Bourse is not grounds for military
attack on Teheran by the United States, William Engdahl
(March 10, 2006, GlobalResearch.ca) assumes the Bush
administration is as rational in its military targeting
as he is in his geopolitical analysis.
He seems to suppose the judicious junta put its collective
brain cell together to conclude: "Well, yes, the
Iranian Oil Bourse is a bit cheeky by trading oil in
euros. But let's face it. The Iranians are not out to
unseat our beloved dollar as petrocurrency, but to find
a mechanism that lets them keep more of their oil revenues
previously wasted on intermediary traders and investment
banks."
Impeccable reasoning: logical, coherent, carefully
nuanced, thoroughly researched, and just plain wrong!
That's not the Dick-and-George we've come to know.
Consider recent revelation of their strategy to mount
a sustained bombing campaign in Iran, in the expectation
this would humiliate the country's religious leadership,
and lead the Iranian people to overthrow their government!
As the former defense official who reported this, asks:
"What are they smoking?"
Well, whatever it is Bush and Dick are stuffing in
their pipes, we can be sure it renders them perfectly
incapable of exercising such subtle reasoning as Engdahl
presents. Since when did the Bush administration need
a "casus belli" that made any sense? The Iran
Oil Bourse is not a casus belli when Bush starts reading
Flaubert. Or even the Bible he purports to follow.
April 2006
