Bret Stephen's "myths" about Iran dispelled.

Bret Stephens has a rather sad oped in the Wall Street Journal (whose editorial page is known to be home to the rightwing kooks)  which attempts to dispel "myths" to justify a bombing of Iran.

Note these two myths he attempts to dispel: the supposed "myth" that the nuclear program in Iran enjoys popular support (his evidence that it doesn't? Something he claims the riotors in Iran have chanted) and the supposed "myth" that the US should not meddle by supporting the demonstrators.

His arguments are basically for willful blindness. And, apparently he sees absolutely no contradiction between bombing Iranians and "supporting" them.

Note also the inbuilt assumption that Iran is acquiring nukes. No matter how often the IAEA or even US intelligence agencies repeat that there's no actual evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, these people just flat refuse to acknowledge that fact. Of course, the same sort of pople writing in the same WSJ pages have already declared that the US intelligence on Iran is "politicized" because it doesn't match up to their agenda.

Comments

[Arnold Evans]

I'm finding the supposed chants funnier and funnier. This article claims one of the most popular chants is "Iran is fertile and green, we don't need nukes", or something like that.

I'll bet a million bucks, that chant has never been heard in Iran. Forget polls, whatever you want to project Iranians to believe, just put into a chant, and claim the opposition has been saying it.

The next op-ed will claim the following chants:

"We don't need a Shiite crescent! Stop threatening Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt!"
"Sadat was right! Make peace with Israel and suspend the constitution for decades!"

and of course,

"Please bomb us and invade! We'll welcome you with flowers and candies!"

{LOL!}

[Lysander]

Off topic, Cy, but do you have any info or analysis regarding Ahmadinejad's apparent acceptance of the uranium swap? It seems like a bad deal to me, but if the west got China to role then he may have little choice.

[mb]

I read his op-ed. A piece of garbage, from a clueless Zionist who thinks the intelligent people of Iran would agree with his bullshit. He is a reactionary moron whom I guarantee does not even know the difference between a Shia and a Sunni muslim and like his Zionist colleagues is paid to write such garbage day after day in papers to brainwash the average Americans in order to justify another war.