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"This early basking of triumph doesn't always last," - The Corporate Media Is Going To Peddle Another Disasterous Republican-fascist Middle-Eastern War To The Suckers

I HAVEN'T SAID anything about the Israeli-American war on Iran yet because so little that is in any way reliable is known about it.   I have learned, in a long life of hearing and reading the American free press when it comes to American military actions and so-called intelligence actions that we can't rely on them at all in the near term and very little in the long term - they will lie and cover for the American president and the American military and intelligence networks and spin the biggest disasters into political opportunity for the corporate party,  the Republican-fascists.   That experience starts in the early 1960s and has spun an unbroken string of such spin that goes on right now. 

And so it was when I looked online and on searches of Google, Youtube, other search engines, immediately in the early hours of this that the media here and in Britain were spinning the attack on Iran as some kind of preemptory strike, spinning it in a way that made the gullible think that it was in some way a retaliation or preventative strike.   I looked at even the English language services from France and Germany and though they were far less inclined to lie like the English media of the English speaking Peoples they reserved judgment as to the clear illegitimacy of the attack,  that is if law meant anything.  

As I'm finding so often,  Zeteo had some of the best commentary on it, here's what its founder, Mehdi Hassan said,  my editing of the machine transcript:

I wasn't sure what it was, right, Prem? Because a lot of the reporting, including from Swin, who's going to give us his take in a moment, was is this going to be a smaller strike first and then they do a big strike later. Is this Trump's way of bringing the quote unquote regime to the table? Even though they were in the middle of negotiations, even though hours before these strikes, the Omani foreign minister, the Omanis, for those of you who don't know, don't tend to talk very much in public. 

The foreign minister of Oman went on American TV and said, "You know what? The Iranians have pretty much agreed to everything the Americans want. They've gone beyond what Barack Obama got from the Iran deal." And yet, they still attacked, which everyone should keep in mind when they hear American officials saying this was about the nuclear program.   A complete load of Um, this is a huge attack.   Trump called it a massive wave of attacks last night.  

And Tom Cotton, Senator Tom Cotton, the very hawkish Republican chair of the intel committee has said today, "This is an attack that won't end in days. It's going to last weeks." 
So, we are looking at a major attack. I've always worried that a war with Iran would make the war with Iran look like a walk in the park. I hope I'm proven wrong. 

Something you said, Prem, stuck out to me, which is, you know, history's being written, but we don't know how it's going to be written. The problem we have, and I would urge all Zeteo subscribers to keep this in mind who are watching right now, is the media are going to tell you all sorts of things about who's up, who's down, who's won, who's lost. It's meaningless. 

This is the first few hours of a major, major war. Remember what happened after Iraq? Remember George Bush standing on a ship saying, "Mission accomplished." Remember the people who mocked some of us saying, "See, it all worked out amazingly. We took over the country. We got Saddam. Um, and Iraq was the disaster it was." Same with Afghanistan. Same with Libya. 

This early basking of triumph doesn't always last. And let's see what happens with American soldiers. Trump has talked about American soldiers uh losing their lives possibly . . . 

This early basking of triumph doesn't always last,  not that that has ever really cost a Republican-fascist anything, nor even a war hawk Democrat.  

No one knows where this is going to go, I doubt it's gone the way that Netanyahu or the various Arab states who bought themselves this American war greasing the path for it with emoluments that used to be considered illegal in the US (that is until the Roberts Court made corruption legal here) has gotten what they expected, so far.   You can't predict the outcome of somthing like this which just one of the lesser moral reasons of why it should never have been started.  

You can listen to the entire discussion here, thougheven before my posting it,  other than the misgivings, it will be out of date.