A war between 2500-yr-old civilization and 250-yr-old civilization
The longer the war against Iran drags on, it will have disastrous impact and the global economy will sink. Now, the question is how long the US-Israeli joint military campaign known as ‘Operation Epic Fury’ lasts. It is increasingly becoming evident that the US-Israel lacks the exit strategy of the war that they only had begun unjustifiably on February 28.
With a determined Iran under the leadership of the slain supreme leader Ayatollh Khomeini’s son Mojtaba Khomeini ruling out ceasefire talks, and the US threatening “most intense day of strikes” on Tuesday, the Trump administration is now facing growing pressure from base to end war.
The US-Israeli strikes have plunged the entire Middle East into a sprawling war. The US has committed heinous crime by bombing a girls’ school in Minab, Tehran on March 5 killing as many as 168 to 180, most of whom were schoolchildren. The attack was the deadliest strike in terms of civilian casualties.
It is almost certain that President Donald Trump’s ‘Operation Epic Fury’ will backfire. Their ‘assassination’ and ‘decapitation’ of leadership strategy in the Middle East has proved disastrous. It may give, as has been rightly pointed out by the Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab, “a quick short-term political boost but it will lead to long-time disaster.”
Look at what the US had done during the Iraq war. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was justified by the US-led coalition claims that Saddam Hussein possessed and was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including chemical, biological and nuclear programs. Later it became abundantly clear that Saddam had no such weapons in his hands. While Iraq had a crash program in the early 1990s, no evidence of an active, post-1998, N-weapons programs were found. Ignoring the expert weapons inspectors 23 years ago proved to be a fatal mistake.
“Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here,” said David Kay, Head of the Iraq Survey Group, during testimony to the US Senate, 29 January 2004.
The invasion of Iran by the US-Israeli joint forces is also based on some crap and unreliable information. None of them will finally prove to be true. In the process, the entire world will be insecure, let alone the Gulf countries, and the US allies in the Middle East will be worst affected and they will have to bear the brunt.
Iran has already closed the Strait of Hormuz through which 20% of global oil supplies are carried out. What will be the economic fallout of the ongoing war? Surging oil prices will lead to global energy crisis, the effect of which is already being felt across the world. On March 10, gas was sold at $3.40 per gallon in the US, which is quite high. Its ripple effect will now be felt by ordinary citizens across the world as transport costs keep rising.
When will the US leadership learn from the Vietnam War (1973), Afghanistan War (2001 to 2021, the longest in US history), Iraq war (2003) and the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya (2011)?
North Vietnam and the communist Viet Cong won the Vietnam War after the US was forced to pull out their forces. Following the withdrawal of the US troops in 1973, North Vietnam forces had captured Saigon on April 30, 1975 and the conflict came to an end. The US hubris got a serious blow.
Now, while the cost of living in the US keeps spiraling and inflation a matter of serious concern and the domestic audience has no appetite for war, President Trump (‘Titanic’ pose sculpture of Trump-Jeffrey Epstein appeared on Nation Mall near US Capitol on March 10) has declared war against Iran when the slain Iranian supreme leader was willing to make concessions to their N-research.
While Oman was actively brokering peace and mediated between the US and Iran to avert a direct military clash and talks were being held in Muscat and Geneva, the Israeli-US joint operation began late night and the joint forces assassinated the 86-year-old ailing supreme leader.
Decimating the leadership (a wrong tactic fiercely followed by Washington) will not ensure peace in the Middle East but it will open doors to violence, upheaval, chaos and much more radical successors. The US allies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait) in the Middle East are now feeling the hard truth.
With Iran saying on March 11 that it has launched its most ‘intense strikes’, and Israel saying “the war with Iran will continue until Israel and the US determine the time”, the war is not going to end anytime soon.
It’s an imposed war. It’s a war between the 2500-year-old civilization and 250-year-old civilization!
