A view from outside

Be sure to read this tremendous essay by Scottish writer Hamish, courtesy of OpEdNews. A fascinating take on the still-developing Iranian "situation" - from an overseas' point of view. Highlights:

Israel took out a reactor in Iraq and everyone assumes they will do the same again in Iran. More difficult this time as they have to fly over Iraq and will embarrass the US if they do. No, the US will do it. They are aware they will be even more hated if they start another war but fear running out of oil more. People who think the US administration are looking to honourably withdraw from the region, have not been taking their medication.

The US is now successfully operating the Flypaper Theory... meaning that all the flies that are anti-American are sticking to them in Iraq. Sure they are losing troops but they can, more and more, fill these spaces by 3rd Worlders, when they run out of young patriots and poor kids. Mexico has a huge reserve of young men who are being offered US citizenship, of a degree, if they take Bush's silver shilling.

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The UN and the States have still to recover from Colin Powell using it as a platform for his detailed description of a large ice cream van as a military vehicle for vanilla-flavoured missiles. He is able to sleep at nights apparently. He had been widely tipped as the US' first black president rather than as their most prominent embarrassment.

As for Iran, the Iranian president must be forced to stop his stupid remarks about Israel, denying the holocaust etc., and his obvious hatred of the US. However this must be done by robbing him of any reason, not by the ludicrous Bolton's threats.

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I have previously argued that Iran will make a bomb. Their denials are silly. I hate the bomb and curse the day it was dreamed up, but I am Scottish. Our oil has already been plundered and we have already been defeated in that sense. If I were an Iranian. I would look around. Saddam attacked them for ten years because of their oil. America and Britain changed the region's history, politics and shape to suit their greed.

Only a dumpling or a Bolton would not see. They are scared. They think the west is not to be trusted. "They are interfering in Iraq's affairs" was Jack Straw's priceless justification for the build up of tension. The irony was lost on Straw. We are some 5 thousand miles from the area. Iran is next door.