Act for the Republic and Independence
On Iran, President Obama should:
1.) Explain to the American people that Iran is no threat to the United States
unless we or Israel attack it first, and then it would be a serious threat to
U.S. access to energy and would likely stage terrorist operations in the
continental United States. [The last thanks to 30-years of federal immigration
policies that leave us without knowledge of who is in the country or what they
are capable of doing.]
2.) Publicly state that there will be no U.S. surprise attack on Iran, and no
U.S. attack at all on Iran unless the president asks for a formal declaration
of war and the Congress votes its approval in a constitutional manner.
3.) Call in Israel's ambassador to the United States and tell him that we
understand that Israel believes Iran is a threat to its survival, and that we
agree that Israel has every right to defend itself. If Israel believes it must
go to war with Iran, then so be it. But also tell the ambassador that if Israel
attacks Iran, the U.S. administration will declare U.S. neutrality in the war
and immediately cut off military and financial support to all combatants in the
war.
4.) Speak to the American people and tell them to expect to be brutally
propagandized by U.S. citizen Israel-Firsters through AIPAC, their ubiquitous
media shills, and the men and women they own in the U.S. Congress and federal
bureaucracy.
Urge Americans to ignore this effort by U.S. Israel-Firsters to
get them to send their soldier-children to fight in a religious war in which the
U.S. has no genuine national interest at stake, and in which U.S. participation
would further bankrupt the country, require the reintroduction of conscription,
and put America at war with all of the Muslim world -- Shia and Sunni -- for
the foreseeable future.
By
Michael F. Scheuer
Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University
February 17, 2010 "National
Journal"
