Hay tantas
operetas en marcha en torno a Donald Trump en estos días que uno no sabe ya qué pensar. Lo de
Irán, por ejemplo. ¿Qué está tratando de hacer esta gente? ¿Demostrar que son malísimos?
Para eso están las invasiones a Grenada o cosas por el estilo. Pero, ¿Irán?
En el generalmente
sobrio sitio web Moon of Alabama leemos lo siguiente:
Título: The Empty
Threat Against Iran - National Security Advisor Flynn Embarrasses Himself
Texto: Trump's
National Security Advisor Flynn [foto] keeps demonstrating the limits of is
strategic-intellectual capacity. He went in front of the cameras and issued
this empty threat:
The international
community has been too tolerant of Iran’s bad behavior. The ritual of convening
a United Nations Security Council in an emergency meeting and issuing a strong
statement is not enough. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate
Iran’s provocations that threaten our interests.
The days of
turning a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions toward the United
States and the world community are over.
What is such
bluster supposed to achieve?
Interestingly the
statement came out just an hour after Donald Rumsfeld left the White House
where he had talked about "process" with Flynn and NSC staff.
The U.S. has no
way to coerce the 80 million Iranians into anything. The Bush administration
learned that (it was one reason why Rumsfeld was fired), the Obama
administration acknowledged it and the Trump administration will have to accept
that too.
Iran has been
under U.S. sanction since 1979. A few more years of unilateral U.S. sanctions
will not change its positions one iota. The "international community"
supports the nuclear deal and encouraged the lifting of international
sanctions. It will not agree to new ones just because some Trump flunky says
so.
Iran is needed to
achieve peace and to fight Islamic terrorism in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere. To even try such without Iranian involvement would
require hundred-thousands of U.S. troops. They would fail should Iran decide to
work against them. Indeed there is nothing that can be achieved in the Middle
East without Iran. While it has only limited capabilities to actively interfere
in other countries it can throw up hurdles everywhere.
Smaller direct
U.S. attacks on Iran would be responded to with attacks by Iranian proxies
elsewhere. U.S. troops in Iran and Afghanistan, and especially their
resupplies, would be in imminent danger. A large attack on Iran itself would
lead to the destruction of U.S. military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman
and Saudi Arabia. Every U.S. ship passing through the Street of Hormuz would
come under fire.
There will be no
significant international support for any U.S. move against Iran. Sending the
USS Cole to the Yemeni coast while fantasizing about Houthi mining the waters
is a just too obvious setup for a "Gulf of Tonkin" replay.
Any significant
military move against Iran would be a strategic foreign policy disaster just
like the Bush administration attack on Iraq was one. That attack strengthened
Iran's long term position. An attack on the country itself would achieve the
same on a much larger scale.
The more grown
ups in the Trump administration know all this. Secretary of Defense Mattis, no
friend of Iran at all, pulled the rug out from under Flynn's empty threat:
Defense Secretary
Jim Mattis said Saturday that the threat from Iran’s missile program does not
currently require the realignment of U.S. forces in the Middle East, striking a
note of restraint shortly after the White House issued a strong warning to
Tehran.
The U.S. Central
Command on the Middle East was not even informed about the Flynn threat towards
Iran. The move is obviously no a thought through administration policy.
Is Flynn
freelancing with such threats trying to prove his worthiness for the administration?
Or was he set up by others to embarrass himself?
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