I've been told that the following information was hacked off a laptop belonging to an aid of John Bolton. I neither confirm nor deny.
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Plan of action is a two step process.
First
Denial must run deep, must be thorough and must be complete. All salient facts must be ignored:
- That in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état the CIA put the Shah into power.
- That there is significant US military presence on both of Iran's borders and there are US warships nearby.
- That added to all that American military hardware - the power of the Israeli military hasn't taken a holiday and Israel's nuclear arsenal is at least 150 nuclear weapons.
- That attacking Iran will do little more than delay it's development of a (supposed) nuclear weapon program.
- That attacking Iran guarantees that the Iran nuclear weapons problem will go from "supposed" to a real and full bore program to develop as great a nuclear arsenal in as short a time as possible.
- That attacking Iran will lead to Iran fighting asymmetrically - which means terrorist attacks in the cities of nations felt by the Iranians to be its enemies or friends of its enemies. Cities like London will become targets.
- That attack on Iran could lead to a gigantic recruiting boon to all sorts of terrorist groups.
- That an attack on Iran might force the US to reinstate the draft.
- That an attack on Iran could damage the diplomatic relationship of the US to nearly every country on the globe. The Japanese won't go so far as to burn the American flag - but it could be the first baby step towards Chinese being the preferred second language in Japan.
- That an attack on Iran will have disastrous consequences for the American economy.
- That an attack on Iran could lead to a bit of global economic chaos.
- That an attack on Iran will (at least) cost the lives of a few thousand more American soldiers.
- That an attack on Iran will probably result in the combined military expenditure for Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan to approach 14 digits: 10 trillion dollars.
- That an attack on Iran could herald the beginning of the end of the American empire.
The second step proves to be quite the challenge! Try to stick the camel through the eye of the needle.
- Make the assumption that diplomacy has failed in the past and the present and will fail in the future.
- Make the assumption that the certain failure of diplomacy - past, present and future - necessitates an attack.
- An attack cannot be explained logically. Hide the monstrous stupidity of an attack by appealing to the base and primal fears of the public. Example - create hysteria vis-à-vis what was used during the Cold War: 'they' want to kill 'us'. "Iran could hit Southern Europe", "Iran could hit the US by 2015", "Iran is a danger even without nukes", etc.
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Why aren't there songs, movies, tv shows and poems about denial?

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Denial—is the only fact
Perceived by the Denied—
Whose Will—a numb significance—
The Day the Heaven died—
And all the Earth strove common round—
Without Delight, or Beam—
What Comfort was it Wisdom—was—
The spoiler of Our Home?
Emily Dickinson. My love.
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