Iran’s Lack of Exceptionalism

Iran Still Supports Terrorism, State Department Finds, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Takes One To Know One Section correspondent, while showering. The Times covered the entire report, and the State Department had some interesting things to say there. Someone at State is very self conscious and seems to have had a major hand in writing the report. Marquel thought for a few moments and decided this guy won’t be working at State next week. Here are some excerpts from the report:

Section 2.4 of the report: “The State Department notes that Iran is still denying human rights to various foreigners and citizens. Iran, however, has no Guantanamo and therefore cannot plead necessity nor can it show that its human rights violations are exceptions, the way our treatment of Guantanamo prisoners is, even if some of them have been there fifteen years or so and God knows when or if they’ll ever get out.”

Section 7.4: “Furthermore, Iran is still supporting terrorist activity in Syria, killing innocents or others often on the basis of religion. This is totally unlike the U.S.which bombs almost all its targets in Syria without regard to religion. As well, since many of our attacks are conducted from afar, we have no easy way of knowing whether we are killing innocents and children. Until several hours later. Iran knows almost instantly when it is killing innocents.”

Section 11.4: “Additionally, Iran is involved in intrigue up and down the Middle East axis, making alliances with whomever walks out of the desert, and simply stirs up trouble. This is so unlike the U.S., which first went to Kuwait, then invaded Iraq, then left Iraq, then returned to Iraq, at the same time bombing both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and vice versa. We can’t even think of Yemen. Can’t even.

Iran, on the other hand, does not make wild alliances which will never last. Iran is carefully making alliances that may last decades and more. Iran is so dangerous, the State Department can’t even.”

Section 12.1: “Iran is also supporting terrorists across the middle east, including beheadings, suicide bombers, and indiscriminate IEDs, so unlike the U.S.which uses high technology to strike from one end of the peninsula to the other, with super accurate drones. America certainly cannot be responsible, eight thousand miles away, if the targets it hits with the super accurate drones are often the wrong people. And the U.S.would never engage in beheadings. When a drone hits, every single human organ and human limb is neatly detached from all other human organs and limbs, not just heads.”

Section 13.7: “The bottom line is Iran’s desire to have nuclear arms. It is quite possible that their secret agenda is to delay the rest of the world until it is too late. Their present plans are unknown but contain the intolerable likelihood that  a wildly irrational country that engages in terrorism will soon have a nuclear force. They might have two or three bombs in no time. This is unlike a nation like the U.S., a civilized rational country with over 10,000 nuclear and even thermonuclear weapons. Such an arsenal makes a country like the U.S. far more conscious of its moral responsibility to be sure none of these weapons are ever used.  That’s why we even may make more of them. But Iran would not make even two such weapons if it weren’t planning to use them.

There lies the threat of Iran and the difference between us. It uses force and the threat of war to gain its goals. The U.S. doesn’t, it’s as simple as that.

By MARQUEL: Iran Lack’s of Exceptionalism