Iran is a distraction

Thus the sabre rattling on Iran represents an attempt to cover over an essential fact: the attempt to leverage US military power into a permanent colonial base in Iraq, and use this to overcome economic insufficiencies in the US economy, has failed. The sabre rattling is to draw attention away from the truly catastrophic blunder that is currently being made, and that is the preparation for permanent US bases in Iraq to replace the ones that we are losing in Saudi Arabia. This decision, not the decision to attack Iran, is the one which requires political focus in the United States, since this is the decision which is, even as we speak, creating fixed costs and investment, which will then be used as an excuse to maintain the bases, regardless of the hazards they create.

Iran is a decade away from being able to threaten anyone, at the same time, it is already producing the deterrent effect, and is becoming part of the larger crisis, the break down of the military, social and economic advantages of the developed core.