‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

[Laughing-gas]

The book tells the story of a “manufactured crisis” that unfolded in the years from 2002 through 2013 in three identifiable stages, corresponding to the major shifts in the US-Israeli strategy. It does not view every move by the United States and Israel as part of a master plan that was thought through from the start. On the contrary, it shows how each stage of the strategy developed in response to new political opportunities and problems that arose in regard to the broader aim of weakening and coercing Iran on the nuclear issue.

The first stage was triggered by the announcement of Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in an August 2002 press conference by the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). That dramatic event, which the book shows was the result of a strategic decision by Israel, opened the way for the United States and Israel to put Iran on trial for allegedly deceiving the IAEA for many years and secretly seeking to become a nuclear weapons state. The main thrust of the strategy for the next few years was to have the IAEA intensively investigate a series of issues that the IAEA’s Safeguards Department had identified, with the help of US and Israeli intelligence, as indications of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

These IAEA investigations generated one round of news stories after another that portrayed each activity under investigation as suggesting that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for nuclear weapons. To the chagrin of the United States and Israel, however, these investigations ended in early 2008 without having found any evidence to support that charge.

But Israel and the United States had a more potent weapon for consolidating the nuclear scare over Iran. In 2008, they quickly shifted the focus of the IAEA inquiry to a collection of documents, purportedly stolen from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, which had been given to the United States by an unknown party. Thus began the second stage of the crisis, from 2008 to late 2011, ostensibly aimed at holding Iran “accountable” for what the IAEA called the “alleged studies” documents. But the actual Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically heightened the threat of war against Iran’s nuclear sites. That threat was accompanied by apparent signs of growing tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue. But as Manufactured Crisis documents, both Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in an intricate political charade.

Unravelling the false history of the Iranian nuclear program: An excerpt from ‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare’

 

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The book tells the story of a “manufactured crisis” that unfolded in the years from 2002 through 2013 in three identifiable stages, corresponding to the major shifts in the US-Israeli strategy. It does not view every move by the United States and Israel as part of a master plan that was thought through from the start. On the contrary, it shows how each stage of the strategy developed in response to new political opportunities and problems that arose in regard to the broader aim of weakening and coercing Iran on the nuclear issue.

The first stage was triggered by the announcement of Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in an August 2002 press conference by the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). That dramatic event, which the book shows was the result of a strategic decision by Israel, opened the way for the United States and Israel to put Iran on trial for allegedly deceiving the IAEA for many years and secretly seeking to become a nuclear weapons state. The main thrust of the strategy for the next few years was to have the IAEA intensively investigate a series of issues that the IAEA’s Safeguards Department had identified, with the help of US and Israeli intelligence, as indications of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

These IAEA investigations generated one round of news stories after another that portrayed each activity under investigation as suggesting that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for nuclear weapons. To the chagrin of the United States and Israel, however, these investigations ended in early 2008 without having found any evidence to support that charge.

But Israel and the United States had a more potent weapon for consolidating the nuclear scare over Iran. In 2008, they quickly shifted the focus of the IAEA inquiry to a collection of documents, purportedly stolen from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, which had been given to the United States by an unknown party. Thus began the second stage of the crisis, from 2008 to late 2011, ostensibly aimed at holding Iran “accountable” for what the IAEA called the “alleged studies” documents. But the actual Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically heightened the threat of war against Iran’s nuclear sites. That threat was accompanied by apparent signs of growing tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue. But as Manufactured Crisis documents, both Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in an intricate political charade.

Unravelling the false history of the Iranian nuclear program: An excerpt from ‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare’

Are you trying to compartmentalize the issue of whether Iran intends to make nuclear bombs or not as a completely unrelated matter to who Iran is and what the history of the conflict has been in the Middle East over? Do you really think Israel wants to go to war with Iran? Is that your contention?

So when Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactors, it was all B.S.? And Syria's too?

Iran has no hatred for Israel? Iran funds these terrorist groups to murder Jews just because they are bored? Or does none of that play into this author's reasoning?

Without further investigation as to what the main premise is of this book, I think it's intentional deception or garbage. Israel is always targeted for destruction by fanatical Muslim regimes --- ALWAYS! Has not history taught you anything?

 

[Laughing-gas]

The book tells the story of a “manufactured crisis” that unfolded in the years from 2002 through 2013 in three identifiable stages, corresponding to the major shifts in the US-Israeli strategy. It does not view every move by the United States and Israel as part of a master plan that was thought through from the start. On the contrary, it shows how each stage of the strategy developed in response to new political opportunities and problems that arose in regard to the broader aim of weakening and coercing Iran on the nuclear issue.

The first stage was triggered by the announcement of Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in an August 2002 press conference by the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). That dramatic event, which the book shows was the result of a strategic decision by Israel, opened the way for the United States and Israel to put Iran on trial for allegedly deceiving the IAEA for many years and secretly seeking to become a nuclear weapons state. The main thrust of the strategy for the next few years was to have the IAEA intensively investigate a series of issues that the IAEA’s Safeguards Department had identified, with the help of US and Israeli intelligence, as indications of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

These IAEA investigations generated one round of news stories after another that portrayed each activity under investigation as suggesting that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for nuclear weapons. To the chagrin of the United States and Israel, however, these investigations ended in early 2008 without having found any evidence to support that charge.

But Israel and the United States had a more potent weapon for consolidating the nuclear scare over Iran. In 2008, they quickly shifted the focus of the IAEA inquiry to a collection of documents, purportedly stolen from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, which had been given to the United States by an unknown party. Thus began the second stage of the crisis, from 2008 to late 2011, ostensibly aimed at holding Iran “accountable” for what the IAEA called the “alleged studies” documents. But the actual Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically heightened the threat of war against Iran’s nuclear sites. That threat was accompanied by apparent signs of growing tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue. But as Manufactured Crisis documents, both Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in an intricate political charade.

Unravelling the false history of the Iranian nuclear program: An excerpt from ‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare’

Are you trying to compartmentalize the issue of whether Iran intends to make nuclear bombs or not as a completely unrelated matter to who Iran is and what the history of the conflict has been in the Middle East over? Do you really think Israel wants to go to war with Iran? Is that your contention?

So when Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactors, it was all B.S.? And Syria's too?

Iran has no hatred for Israel? Iran funds these terrorist groups to murder Jews just because they are bored? Or does none of that play into this author's reasoning?

Without further investigation as to what the main premise is of this book, I think it's intentional deception or garbage. Israel is always targeted for destruction by fanatical Muslim regimes --- ALWAYS! Has not history taught you anything?

Firstly, I posted this and its links because no such discussion has been forthcoming in the "Western press", who blithely continue the ruse of Iranian nuclear ambitions having a primary military component/incentive. This has been accepted as fact by politicians, news disseminators, pundits and every talking head that cares to weigh in, with exactly the same certainty and vigour that similar lies concerning Iraq's non-existent WMDs had done just over a decade earlier (coincidentally when you care to scrape around, you find the self-same actors or their updated substitutes).

Secondly, to those who are informed on the region it is no news or secret that Israel's design on the region is the Balkanize (or otherwise neuter regional powers as in the case of Iran) the region in order to expand as much as they please, while all the time pleading security concerns. See Yinon Plan and examine Stephen J. Sniegoski's work to see a clear and unmistakable continuum (Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria) in full progress, away from the prying eyes of the largely compliant and supine "Western press".

Thirdly, Iran is a regional power who has never deployed its military abroad since Xerxes (except for a brief adventure in Yemen under the Shah) and its leaders (contrary to popularised perception) are neither irrational nor suicidal, so your assertion that Iran "hates" Israel is simply hysterical gibberish. That Iran is opposed to the wholesale occupation, appropriation of land, serial disproportionate responses to protests etc. of/by Palestinians would be more honest and closer to the truth. Similarly, the countries neighbouring South Africa didn't hate South Africa, but rather its policies as a settler. South Africa and Israel mirror each other so closely (except for one crucial fact*) that it is uncanny, likewise the claims made by their respective supporters (who also curiously overlap to this day) not only often overlap, but they are exactly the same.

* Israel has one thing to be very proud of thus far, and that is the relative press freedom that allows domestic Jewish dissenters to voice their concerns. This is nowhere to be found in any of the Western supporters of Israel when discussions concerning its policies are ever brought to notice. As you may know, South Africa had a thoroughly repressive policy against any semblance of free press.

 

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The book tells the story of a “manufactured crisis” that unfolded in the years from 2002 through 2013 in three identifiable stages, corresponding to the major shifts in the US-Israeli strategy. It does not view every move by the United States and Israel as part of a master plan that was thought through from the start. On the contrary, it shows how each stage of the strategy developed in response to new political opportunities and problems that arose in regard to the broader aim of weakening and coercing Iran on the nuclear issue.

The first stage was triggered by the announcement of Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in an August 2002 press conference by the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). That dramatic event, which the book shows was the result of a strategic decision by Israel, opened the way for the United States and Israel to put Iran on trial for allegedly deceiving the IAEA for many years and secretly seeking to become a nuclear weapons state. The main thrust of the strategy for the next few years was to have the IAEA intensively investigate a series of issues that the IAEA’s Safeguards Department had identified, with the help of US and Israeli intelligence, as indications of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

These IAEA investigations generated one round of news stories after another that portrayed each activity under investigation as suggesting that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for nuclear weapons. To the chagrin of the United States and Israel, however, these investigations ended in early 2008 without having found any evidence to support that charge.

But Israel and the United States had a more potent weapon for consolidating the nuclear scare over Iran. In 2008, they quickly shifted the focus of the IAEA inquiry to a collection of documents, purportedly stolen from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, which had been given to the United States by an unknown party. Thus began the second stage of the crisis, from 2008 to late 2011, ostensibly aimed at holding Iran “accountable” for what the IAEA called the “alleged studies” documents. But the actual Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically heightened the threat of war against Iran’s nuclear sites. That threat was accompanied by apparent signs of growing tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue. But as Manufactured Crisis documents, both Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in an intricate political charade.

Unravelling the false history of the Iranian nuclear program: An excerpt from ‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare’

Are you trying to compartmentalize the issue of whether Iran intends to make nuclear bombs or not as a completely unrelated matter to who Iran is and what the history of the conflict has been in the Middle East over? Do you really think Israel wants to go to war with Iran? Is that your contention?

So when Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactors, it was all B.S.? And Syria's too?

Iran has no hatred for Israel? Iran funds these terrorist groups to murder Jews just because they are bored? Or does none of that play into this author's reasoning?

Without further investigation as to what the main premise is of this book, I think it's intentional deception or garbage. Israel is always targeted for destruction by fanatical Muslim regimes --- ALWAYS! Has not history taught you anything?

Firstly, I posted this and its links because no such discussion has been forthcoming in the "Western press", who blithely continue the ruse of Iranian nuclear ambitions having a primary military component/incentive. This has been accepted as fact by politicians, news disseminators, pundits and every talking head that cares to weigh in, with exactly the same certainty and vigour that similar lies concerning Iraq's non-existent WMDs had done just over a decade earlier (coincidentally when you care to scrape around, you find the self-same actors or their updated substitutes).

Secondly, to those who are informed on the region it is no news or secret that Israel's design on the region is the Balkanize (or otherwise neuter regional powers as in the case of Iran) the region in order to expand as much as they please, while all the time pleading security concerns. See Yinon Plan and examine Stephen J. Sniegoski's work to see a clear and unmistakable continuum (Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria) in full progress, away from the prying eyes of the largely compliant and supine "Western press".

Thirdly, Iran is a regional power who has never deployed its military abroad since Xerxes (except for a brief adventure in Yemen under the Shah) and its leaders (contrary to popularised perception) are neither irrational nor suicidal, so your assertion that Iran "hates" Israel is simply hysterical gibberish. That Iran is opposed to the wholesale occupation, appropriation of land, serial disproportionate responses to protests etc. of/by Palestinians would be more honest and closer to the truth. Similarly, the countries neighbouring South Africa didn't hate South Africa, but rather its policies as a settler. South Africa and Israel mirror each other so closely (except for one crucial fact*) that it is uncanny, likewise the claims made by their respective supporters (who also curiously overlap to this day) not only often overlap, but they are exactly the same.

* Israel has one thing to be very proud of thus far, and that is the relative press freedom that allows domestic Jewish dissenters to voice their concerns. This is nowhere to be found in any of the Western supporters of Israel when discussions concerning its policies are ever brought to notice. As you may know, South Africa had a thoroughly repressive policy against any semblance of free press.

I was intending to apologize to you for saying earlier “has history taught you nothing?” because it was the author I was taking issue with, not you personally.

But after reading your firstly, secondly and thirdly points/paragraphs --- forget it. You have put way too much on my plate to tackle. I honestly think your attacks on Israel and your defense of Iran are absolute rubbish. Seriously. Could you be more wrong, in my eyes? I do respect that you very well believe what you are stating and are being sincere, but it still bewilders me.

 

[Laughing-gas]

The book tells the story of a “manufactured crisis” that unfolded in the years from 2002 through 2013 in three identifiable stages, corresponding to the major shifts in the US-Israeli strategy. It does not view every move by the United States and Israel as part of a master plan that was thought through from the start. On the contrary, it shows how each stage of the strategy developed in response to new political opportunities and problems that arose in regard to the broader aim of weakening and coercing Iran on the nuclear issue.

The first stage was triggered by the announcement of Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in an August 2002 press conference by the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). That dramatic event, which the book shows was the result of a strategic decision by Israel, opened the way for the United States and Israel to put Iran on trial for allegedly deceiving the IAEA for many years and secretly seeking to become a nuclear weapons state. The main thrust of the strategy for the next few years was to have the IAEA intensively investigate a series of issues that the IAEA’s Safeguards Department had identified, with the help of US and Israeli intelligence, as indications of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

These IAEA investigations generated one round of news stories after another that portrayed each activity under investigation as suggesting that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for nuclear weapons. To the chagrin of the United States and Israel, however, these investigations ended in early 2008 without having found any evidence to support that charge.

But Israel and the United States had a more potent weapon for consolidating the nuclear scare over Iran. In 2008, they quickly shifted the focus of the IAEA inquiry to a collection of documents, purportedly stolen from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, which had been given to the United States by an unknown party. Thus began the second stage of the crisis, from 2008 to late 2011, ostensibly aimed at holding Iran “accountable” for what the IAEA called the “alleged studies” documents. But the actual Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically heightened the threat of war against Iran’s nuclear sites. That threat was accompanied by apparent signs of growing tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue. But as Manufactured Crisis documents, both Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in an intricate political charade.

Unravelling the false history of the Iranian nuclear program: An excerpt from ‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare’

Are you trying to compartmentalize the issue of whether Iran intends to make nuclear bombs or not as a completely unrelated matter to who Iran is and what the history of the conflict has been in the Middle East over? Do you really think Israel wants to go to war with Iran? Is that your contention?

So when Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactors, it was all B.S.? And Syria's too?

Iran has no hatred for Israel? Iran funds these terrorist groups to murder Jews just because they are bored? Or does none of that play into this author's reasoning?

Without further investigation as to what the main premise is of this book, I think it's intentional deception or garbage. Israel is always targeted for destruction by fanatical Muslim regimes --- ALWAYS! Has not history taught you anything?

Firstly, I posted this and its links because no such discussion has been forthcoming in the "Western press", who blithely continue the ruse of Iranian nuclear ambitions having a primary military component/incentive. This has been accepted as fact by politicians, news disseminators, pundits and every talking head that cares to weigh in, with exactly the same certainty and vigour that similar lies concerning Iraq's non-existent WMDs had done just over a decade earlier (coincidentally when you care to scrape around, you find the self-same actors or their updated substitutes).

Secondly, to those who are informed on the region it is no news or secret that Israel's design on the region is the Balkanize (or otherwise neuter regional powers as in the case of Iran) the region in order to expand as much as they please, while all the time pleading security concerns. See Yinon Plan and examine Stephen J. Sniegoski's work to see a clear and unmistakable continuum (Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria) in full progress, away from the prying eyes of the largely compliant and supine "Western press".

Thirdly, Iran is a regional power who has never deployed its military abroad since Xerxes (except for a brief adventure in Yemen under the Shah) and its leaders (contrary to popularised perception) are neither irrational nor suicidal, so your assertion that Iran "hates" Israel is simply hysterical gibberish. That Iran is opposed to the wholesale occupation, appropriation of land, serial disproportionate responses to protests etc. of/by Palestinians would be more honest and closer to the truth. Similarly, the countries neighbouring South Africa didn't hate South Africa, but rather its policies as a settler. South Africa and Israel mirror each other so closely (except for one crucial fact*) that it is uncanny, likewise the claims made by their respective supporters (who also curiously overlap to this day) not only often overlap, but they are exactly the same.

* Israel has one thing to be very proud of thus far, and that is the relative press freedom that allows domestic Jewish dissenters to voice their concerns. This is nowhere to be found in any of the Western supporters of Israel when discussions concerning its policies are ever brought to notice. As you may know, South Africa had a thoroughly repressive policy against any semblance of free press.

I was intending to apologize to you for saying earlier “has history taught you nothing?” because it was the author I was taking issue with, not you personally.

But after reading your firstly, secondly and thirdly points/paragraphs --- forget it. You have put way too much on my plate to tackle. I honestly think your attacks on Israel and your defense of Iran are absolute rubbish. Seriously. Could you be more wrong, in my eyes? I do respect that you very well believe what you are stating and are being sincere, but it still bewilders me.

Thank you for your comments.

”It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.”
~ Mark Twain

 

[turzovka]

The book tells the story of a “manufactured crisis” that unfolded in the years from 2002 through 2013 in three identifiable stages, corresponding to the major shifts in the US-Israeli strategy. It does not view every move by the United States and Israel as part of a master plan that was thought through from the start. On the contrary, it shows how each stage of the strategy developed in response to new political opportunities and problems that arose in regard to the broader aim of weakening and coercing Iran on the nuclear issue.

The first stage was triggered by the announcement of Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in an August 2002 press conference by the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). That dramatic event, which the book shows was the result of a strategic decision by Israel, opened the way for the United States and Israel to put Iran on trial for allegedly deceiving the IAEA for many years and secretly seeking to become a nuclear weapons state. The main thrust of the strategy for the next few years was to have the IAEA intensively investigate a series of issues that the IAEA’s Safeguards Department had identified, with the help of US and Israeli intelligence, as indications of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

These IAEA investigations generated one round of news stories after another that portrayed each activity under investigation as suggesting that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for nuclear weapons. To the chagrin of the United States and Israel, however, these investigations ended in early 2008 without having found any evidence to support that charge.

But Israel and the United States had a more potent weapon for consolidating the nuclear scare over Iran. In 2008, they quickly shifted the focus of the IAEA inquiry to a collection of documents, purportedly stolen from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, which had been given to the United States by an unknown party. Thus began the second stage of the crisis, from 2008 to late 2011, ostensibly aimed at holding Iran “accountable” for what the IAEA called the “alleged studies” documents. But the actual Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically heightened the threat of war against Iran’s nuclear sites. That threat was accompanied by apparent signs of growing tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue. But as Manufactured Crisis documents, both Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in an intricate political charade.

Unravelling the false history of the Iranian nuclear program: An excerpt from ‘Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare’

Are you trying to compartmentalize the issue of whether Iran intends to make nuclear bombs or not as a completely unrelated matter to who Iran is and what the history of the conflict has been in the Middle East over? Do you really think Israel wants to go to war with Iran? Is that your contention?

So when Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactors, it was all B.S.? And Syria's too?

Iran has no hatred for Israel? Iran funds these terrorist groups to murder Jews just because they are bored? Or does none of that play into this author's reasoning?

Without further investigation as to what the main premise is of this book, I think it's intentional deception or garbage. Israel is always targeted for destruction by fanatical Muslim regimes --- ALWAYS! Has not history taught you anything?

Firstly, I posted this and its links because no such discussion has been forthcoming in the "Western press", who blithely continue the ruse of Iranian nuclear ambitions having a primary military component/incentive. This has been accepted as fact by politicians, news disseminators, pundits and every talking head that cares to weigh in, with exactly the same certainty and vigour that similar lies concerning Iraq's non-existent WMDs had done just over a decade earlier (coincidentally when you care to scrape around, you find the self-same actors or their updated substitutes).

Secondly, to those who are informed on the region it is no news or secret that Israel's design on the region is the Balkanize (or otherwise neuter regional powers as in the case of Iran) the region in order to expand as much as they please, while all the time pleading security concerns. See Yinon Plan and examine Stephen J. Sniegoski's work to see a clear and unmistakable continuum (Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria) in full progress, away from the prying eyes of the largely compliant and supine "Western press".

Thirdly, Iran is a regional power who has never deployed its military abroad since Xerxes (except for a brief adventure in Yemen under the Shah) and its leaders (contrary to popularised perception) are neither irrational nor suicidal, so your assertion that Iran "hates" Israel is simply hysterical gibberish. That Iran is opposed to the wholesale occupation, appropriation of land, serial disproportionate responses to protests etc. of/by Palestinians would be more honest and closer to the truth. Similarly, the countries neighbouring South Africa didn't hate South Africa, but rather its policies as a settler. South Africa and Israel mirror each other so closely (except for one crucial fact*) that it is uncanny, likewise the claims made by their respective supporters (who also curiously overlap to this day) not only often overlap, but they are exactly the same.

* Israel has one thing to be very proud of thus far, and that is the relative press freedom that allows domestic Jewish dissenters to voice their concerns. This is nowhere to be found in any of the Western supporters of Israel when discussions concerning its policies are ever brought to notice. As you may know, South Africa had a thoroughly repressive policy against any semblance of free press.

I was intending to apologize to you for saying earlier “has history taught you nothing?” because it was the author I was taking issue with, not you personally.

But after reading your firstly, secondly and thirdly points/paragraphs --- forget it. You have put way too much on my plate to tackle. I honestly think your attacks on Israel and your defense of Iran are absolute rubbish. Seriously. Could you be more wrong, in my eyes? I do respect that you very well believe what you are stating and are being sincere, but it still bewilders me.

Thank you for your comments.

”It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.”
~ Mark Twain

Thank you.
And speaking of Mark Twain ---

Everyone who thinks thinks Mark Twain was some despiser of religion in all its forms. Not so. He was no fan of organized religion and the privileges it may have afforded itself, granted, but I believe he was a believer in Christianity.

There is no doubt whatsoever who Mark Twain’s all time hero was in history --- mine too, I might add.

“ I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.” — Mark Twain

“Joan of Arc was easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.” Mark Twain

Four Lessons from Mark Twain’s Little-Known Book on St. Joan of Arc

 

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The case against Iran is even more egregious in that the nuclear powers who comprise the UNSC are all in breach of the NPT themselves, Article VI being not the least of their violations.