Pretend Parley
Since the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979, the Swiss embassy served as official interlocutor between the two countries, at least in public. It seems the US was the one to stay sniffy about relations; Iran offered to enter into direct talks several times over the years. Ahmadinejad even offered to arm wrestle the Deciderer last summer. This is the way empires behave - all other countries are dismissed as unworthy lessers except if they can be used in the empire's self interest. Cuba comes to mind.
Headlines trumpeting talks between the US, Syria and Iran over the clusterfuck in Iraq seem to indicate a breakthrough of sorts. Any movement in this direction should be welcomed as a possibility that at least the fascists will stop snarling and pointing fingers and laying blame for their own egregious filth on other peoples' doorsteps. For a while anyway.
But it turns out that "talks" means communicating by bicycle messenger, as The US is apparently just using this as fig leaf fake diplomacy. What the fascists want is complete and utter capitulation for their targets, knowing full well that it's an impossible demand that will never be met. Their modus operandi is widely known and well understood and agreeing to some photo op sit down isn't going to change a thing.
Operation Desert Shield-cum-Desert Storm obtained a life of it's own five days after Iraq invaded Kuwait and there wasn't a single thing that the Iraqis could have done to prevent war from happening. Saddam accused the west of moving the goalposts at every juncture. Even after acquiescing to coalition demands for complete withdrawal of all force from Kuwait, US planes slaughtered retreating Iraqis and civilians along the Highway Of Death to Basra.
"U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot."
The carnage stretched for 60 miles.
The Rambouillet Accord was supposed to be a 'peace plan' given to Yugoslavia in the dust up over Kosovo in 1999. It was in actuality an ultimatum, designed as a 'take it or leave it' proposition that the fascists so love, along with time table deadlines. It called for total autonomy for one of Yugoslavia's provinces, leaving an open door for the occupation of all of the country by NATO and radically changing the country's financial system among other absurdities. It was meant to put the onus of failure onto Yugoslavia for rejecting an offer as a prelude to what was an inevitable bombing campaign that killed thousands.
In a similar vein, Saddam offered to give up power, exhort his government to cooperate fully with weapons inspectors and leave the country with his family before Iraq was invaded four years ago. Bush thereupon gave a 48 hour deadline.
No, once the fascist juggernaut decides that it's favored weapons contractors need more billions to shove in their pockets, the deal is done. All the hot air and posturing means little or nothing. Total capitulation or total destruction. "Carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs."
We've certainly seen it all before.
Headlines trumpeting talks between the US, Syria and Iran over the clusterfuck in Iraq seem to indicate a breakthrough of sorts. Any movement in this direction should be welcomed as a possibility that at least the fascists will stop snarling and pointing fingers and laying blame for their own egregious filth on other peoples' doorsteps. For a while anyway.
But it turns out that "talks" means communicating by bicycle messenger, as The US is apparently just using this as fig leaf fake diplomacy. What the fascists want is complete and utter capitulation for their targets, knowing full well that it's an impossible demand that will never be met. Their modus operandi is widely known and well understood and agreeing to some photo op sit down isn't going to change a thing.
Operation Desert Shield-cum-Desert Storm obtained a life of it's own five days after Iraq invaded Kuwait and there wasn't a single thing that the Iraqis could have done to prevent war from happening. Saddam accused the west of moving the goalposts at every juncture. Even after acquiescing to coalition demands for complete withdrawal of all force from Kuwait, US planes slaughtered retreating Iraqis and civilians along the Highway Of Death to Basra.
"U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot."
The carnage stretched for 60 miles.
The Rambouillet Accord was supposed to be a 'peace plan' given to Yugoslavia in the dust up over Kosovo in 1999. It was in actuality an ultimatum, designed as a 'take it or leave it' proposition that the fascists so love, along with time table deadlines. It called for total autonomy for one of Yugoslavia's provinces, leaving an open door for the occupation of all of the country by NATO and radically changing the country's financial system among other absurdities. It was meant to put the onus of failure onto Yugoslavia for rejecting an offer as a prelude to what was an inevitable bombing campaign that killed thousands.
In a similar vein, Saddam offered to give up power, exhort his government to cooperate fully with weapons inspectors and leave the country with his family before Iraq was invaded four years ago. Bush thereupon gave a 48 hour deadline.
No, once the fascist juggernaut decides that it's favored weapons contractors need more billions to shove in their pockets, the deal is done. All the hot air and posturing means little or nothing. Total capitulation or total destruction. "Carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs."
We've certainly seen it all before.
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