Good news from the Middle East

Points made by former US Ambassador Chas Freeman talking to Glenn Diesen today.

"I tell my friends in China that the United States is now agreement-incapable."

"Any fondness that the Iranian people previously had for the United States is now pretty much erased."

At one point he says the Iran war has had no positive consequences but then lists a number. USA and Israel are much less powerful. Most of the Gulf monarchies are disenchanted with America, Israel’s new best friend the United Arab Emirates excepted.  Iran will get the bomb and Nato is largely finished.  

Indeed it's an ill wind that blows no good.

'You have members of NATO now denying the United States the use of their airspace or their bases. You have publics that are very turned off by both the United States and by Israel. You have the revelation that the bases in Europe for the most part are there not to defend Europeans against a mythical Russian threat but to provide 'lily pads' from which the United States can project power into West Asia and it's projecting power into West Asia to do things that almost nobody in Europe approves. But you opened all this with questions about  the viability of the state of Israel and this [the end of Nato] is a situation like that question which unfolds only with time. There's nothing instant about it, very likely. So it will be like Hemingway's  famous description of bankruptcy  which happened gradually then suddenly.'

Why do I look forward to an Iranian  bomb? Obviously because it will prevent further American attacks on Iran. 

The word terrorist should be avoided but if you want to use it then the murder of 49 Iranian leaders was clear terrorism. 

Except terrorist means a fighter of whom Americans disapprove. That excludes the IRA whom they funded.