07-16-2015, 07:50 PM
Actually this is a smart move, and if you really want to think deeply into dark politics probably has been in planning stages for longer than Obama's been president. Our country is all about misdirection: look over here at what we tell you to focus on, while we ask you to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Iran is virtually the only major middle eastern power still secular enough to make a passable ally, and they will have nukes whether we want them to or not. We were beholden to the Saudis so much so that we had to swallow their involvement in 9-11 and pretend we liked the taste so they'd keep giving us oil, and we've been beholden to the increasingly hostile Israelis just to keep a foothold over there, but they may have few, or no, allies left and a sudden loss of that anchor would be catastrophic. We did a lot of destabilizing over there in the guise of promoting democracy, which served two purposes. First, it toppled minor despots or preoccupied them to the extent that they remain dis-unified with one another. A fully united middle east would be a scary proposition for our interests and those of both Israel AND Iran. Israel gets off the hotseat as the major focus of hate in the region for a bit. All the fighter groups are busy trying to grab power in their own regions. And finally, Iran is placed in a position of both strength and weakness, as the USA just gave them instant world credibility by extending the diplomatic hand, while carefully maneuvering our own positions so that, should things go south, we got them fuckers surrounded in a three-sided vise.
It's political genius, we're good cop and bad cop all at the same time.
Iran is virtually the only major middle eastern power still secular enough to make a passable ally, and they will have nukes whether we want them to or not. We were beholden to the Saudis so much so that we had to swallow their involvement in 9-11 and pretend we liked the taste so they'd keep giving us oil, and we've been beholden to the increasingly hostile Israelis just to keep a foothold over there, but they may have few, or no, allies left and a sudden loss of that anchor would be catastrophic. We did a lot of destabilizing over there in the guise of promoting democracy, which served two purposes. First, it toppled minor despots or preoccupied them to the extent that they remain dis-unified with one another. A fully united middle east would be a scary proposition for our interests and those of both Israel AND Iran. Israel gets off the hotseat as the major focus of hate in the region for a bit. All the fighter groups are busy trying to grab power in their own regions. And finally, Iran is placed in a position of both strength and weakness, as the USA just gave them instant world credibility by extending the diplomatic hand, while carefully maneuvering our own positions so that, should things go south, we got them fuckers surrounded in a three-sided vise.
It's political genius, we're good cop and bad cop all at the same time.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.