Santorum Promises To Bomb Iran

On Meet the Press, GOP contender Santorum promised to start a war against Iran if it didn’t kowtow to his demands for inspection. It would be a preemptive war. No mention made of obtaining a declaration of war from Congress. The fact that a candidate who has risen in the Iowa polls would make such a statement signals the vast degradation in the arena of American politics and American political thinking more generally. If other candidates and editorial writers from all ends of the political spectrum do not criticize what Santorum has declared, that will provide even more evidence of the approval, even if tacit, of the intent of the U.S. government to be the preponderant influence and authority over other states in the world, when, as, and if it sees fit.

One can accurately conclude that the U.S. intends to dominate anywhere and everywhere that it chooses. It intends to be a global hegemonist. How do we know this? Because Santorum’s statements are merely more up front and open than past actions and sanctions by Congress, past statements by Bush and Obama, past thinking of neoconservatives, past statements made by Israel, Obama’s policies in the Pacific, central Asia and Africa, and the past approval of warmongers in and out of Congress, right and left. We know this too from the American intervention in the Vietnam War and the Secret War in Laos.

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7:36 am on January 2, 2012