{"id":21769,"date":"2012-10-01T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21769"},"modified":"2012-09-25T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:54:44","slug":"israel-lobbyist-hints-that-pearl-harbor-may-be-needed-to-get-us-into-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/israel-lobbyist-hints-that-pearl-harbor-may-be-needed-to-get-us-into-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Lobbyist Hints That \u2018Pearl Harbor\u2019 May Be Needed To Get US into War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday [21 Sep 2012], during question time at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon<\/a> on \u201cHow to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout,\u201d the director of research at the pro-Israel think tank hinted that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get the United States to go to war against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough,\u201d said Patrick Clawson, who also heads the Washington Institute\u2019s Iran Security Initiative, in response to a question about what would happen if negotiations with Tehran fail. \u201cAnd it\u2019s very hard for me to see how the United States \u2026 uh \u2026 President can get us to war with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a consequence, Clawson said he was led to conclude that \u201cthe traditional way [that] America gets to war is what would be best for US interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intriguingly, he went on to recount a series of controversial incidents in American history \u2014 the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the blowing up of the USS Maine \u2014 that US presidents \u201chad to wait for\u201d before taking America to war.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the federal army until Fort Sumter was attacked,\u201d Clawson continued, \u201cwhich is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if in fact the Iranians aren\u2019t going to compromise,\u201d the Israel lobbyist concluded with a smirk on his face, \u201cit would be best if somebody else started the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In his farewell address<\/a> to the people of the United States, George Washington warned that: a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. The aim of this political weblog is to inform about the \u201cvariety of evils\u201d that ensue from America\u2019s (and some other countries\u2019) passionate attachment to Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 thepassionateattachment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intriguingly, he went on to recount a series of controversial incidents in American history \u2014 the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the blowing up of the USS Maine \u2014 that US presidents \u201chad to wait for\u201d before taking America to war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}