Mark Dankof's New Year's Advice for 2007: Get Your Priorities in Order: Our CFR/Trilateralist/Likudnik Establishment Won't (or Can't)
Original Investigative Journalism from the
Columnist Guild News Bureau
As we get ready to enter the new year of 2007, one thing is abundantly clear: the national political leadership of the government of the United States--and its Israeli and Corporate Allies--have no idea as to how to extricate themselves from the mess that is Iraq. The economic cost of the war approaches $1 billion; the American death toll approaches 3,000 and counting; the British medical journal Lancet has credibly demonstrated that 655,000 Iraqis have lost their lives since March of 2003; there is no emerging credible plan to establish a political infrastructure that Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds can achieve consensus with; and the burgeoning totals of national debt to Asian bankers to finance the Project for a New American Century's plan to Secure the Realm virtually guarantee a catastrophic declension in the fortunes of the dollar, along with the fortunes of the American Empire across the board.
A second thing is also abundantly clear: the lunacy that has resulted in what CFR/Trilateralist and Kissinger protege Laurence Eagleburger freely acknowledged on the day of the release of the findings of the Iraq Study Group as an "unprecedented crisis of confidence in American leadership and political institutions" is about to escalate. My prediction: the United States and/or Israel will attack Iran within the next 12 months. The results will be even more catastrophic than the invasion of Iraq 46 months ago.
The American National Security State will discover Iran to be a more powerful opponent than imagined. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that cut its teeth in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88 will turn the American--British purgatory with Iraqi Shiites into a living hell. There will be unprecedented asymmetrical attacks on the worldwide assets of the United States and the UK in the aftermath of a preemptive military action against Tehran. American/Israeli aerial strikes on Iranian nuclear power stations throughout Iran will fall short of success due to the hardened character of the sites in question, even as massive numbers of Iranian civilian casualties will result. The attacks will strengthen, not weaken the support of Iranians for the IRI regime in Tehran, as a result of Western interventionism. And as Lt. General William Odom indicated the other day to the Nieman Journalism Foundation of Harvard University, the failed character of the ill-fated American/Israeli air attacks will most surely be followed by the draconian decision to commit massive numbers of ground troops to Iran.
This will be the straw that breaks the proverbial back of the Empire's camel. The inevitable reinstitution of military conscription in the United States will produce domestic political blowback comparable to that in the Islamic world from Somalia to Indonesia. And when American debt instruments are jettisoned on the international currency markets by Asian banks protesting the latest War for the Empire, the free fall of the dollar and the ensuing economic collapse will combine with the Draft to provide a spontaneous response of political combustion on the part of the American people against the internationalist, Likudnik cabal clearly responsible for the greatest debacle in the storied history of what was the American Republic.
Will the inflammatory situation destroy the country? Or will it restore its fortunes after massive tragedy and tumult? That is the $64,000 question. Only God literally knows.
In the meantime, my recommendation is to get your own priorities and house in order. Put love of God first in life, followed by family members and friends. Read good books. Avoid Corporate Media like the plague. Find good sources of alternative news and information like BATR News, the Republic Broadcasting Network, and American Free Press. And pray for the courage to resist the Empire to the point of martyrdom, in the spirit of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams. The clock is ticking. The absolute arrival at the ultimate crossroad is near.
Oh, yes, one other quick recommendation before New Year's Day. Enjoy my December 29th RBN interview with Mark Weber of the Institute of Historical Review. Click here for his web site.
A second thing is also abundantly clear: the lunacy that has resulted in what CFR/Trilateralist and Kissinger protege Laurence Eagleburger freely acknowledged on the day of the release of the findings of the Iraq Study Group as an "unprecedented crisis of confidence in American leadership and political institutions" is about to escalate. My prediction: the United States and/or Israel will attack Iran within the next 12 months. The results will be even more catastrophic than the invasion of Iraq 46 months ago.
The American National Security State will discover Iran to be a more powerful opponent than imagined. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that cut its teeth in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88 will turn the American--British purgatory with Iraqi Shiites into a living hell. There will be unprecedented asymmetrical attacks on the worldwide assets of the United States and the UK in the aftermath of a preemptive military action against Tehran. American/Israeli aerial strikes on Iranian nuclear power stations throughout Iran will fall short of success due to the hardened character of the sites in question, even as massive numbers of Iranian civilian casualties will result. The attacks will strengthen, not weaken the support of Iranians for the IRI regime in Tehran, as a result of Western interventionism. And as Lt. General William Odom indicated the other day to the Nieman Journalism Foundation of Harvard University, the failed character of the ill-fated American/Israeli air attacks will most surely be followed by the draconian decision to commit massive numbers of ground troops to Iran.
This will be the straw that breaks the proverbial back of the Empire's camel. The inevitable reinstitution of military conscription in the United States will produce domestic political blowback comparable to that in the Islamic world from Somalia to Indonesia. And when American debt instruments are jettisoned on the international currency markets by Asian banks protesting the latest War for the Empire, the free fall of the dollar and the ensuing economic collapse will combine with the Draft to provide a spontaneous response of political combustion on the part of the American people against the internationalist, Likudnik cabal clearly responsible for the greatest debacle in the storied history of what was the American Republic.
Will the inflammatory situation destroy the country? Or will it restore its fortunes after massive tragedy and tumult? That is the $64,000 question. Only God literally knows.
In the meantime, my recommendation is to get your own priorities and house in order. Put love of God first in life, followed by family members and friends. Read good books. Avoid Corporate Media like the plague. Find good sources of alternative news and information like BATR News, the Republic Broadcasting Network, and American Free Press. And pray for the courage to resist the Empire to the point of martyrdom, in the spirit of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams. The clock is ticking. The absolute arrival at the ultimate crossroad is near.
Oh, yes, one other quick recommendation before New Year's Day. Enjoy my December 29th RBN interview with Mark Weber of the Institute of Historical Review. Click here for his web site.
