I know! Just for fun, lets have a “football pool” for when the invasion of Iran will start. Even though, according to the IAEA there is “no evidence of a nuclear weapons program or any diversion of nuclear material” in Iran after “go anywhere, see anything” inspections that allowed IAEA officials to investigate any location or facility they felt was suspicious and even though the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) predicted that it would take 10 years for Iran to build a nuclear weapon. (If, in fact, that is even their intention), a massive media-blitz including statements by Bush, Cheney, Bolton, Rice, Rumsfeld, Burns, Congress, and Israel’s Defense Minister to manipulate public perceptions and whip the masses into war-fever has erupted in the last 48 hours.
How soon will the carrier groups in the Gulf, AC-130s in bases in Iraq and the nearby B-52s “liberate” another 100,000 or so Iranians? Well, the Iran Bourse will formally open on March 20 and allow countries to break the US monopoly on oil purchases in petrodollars. Central banks across Europe and Asia will trade in part of their 3 trillion US dollars for euros. So the Iran Bourse is a direct threat to extorting labor and resources from the developing world for worthless paper and Washington’s ability to print unlimited amounts of money to fund a powerful standing army and provide lavish tax cuts to the wealthy.
But, of course this little scenario differs only in the details from the last 300 or so war mongering scenarios that have taken place since World War I. The simple fact of the matter is that capitalism is a war-prone society, in that built into it is the perpetual conflict between rival states over sources of energy (oil), markets, raw materials, trade routes, areas of influence and the strategic points to defend them. You simply can’t have capitalism without wars, the threat of war and preparations for war. To end war we must end capitalism. To end capitalism, we must replace it with socialism. –PF
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