America’s Iran War: A Manufactured Threat
This whole exchange is a perfect snapshot of how U.S. officials justify wars they already decided to fight: retroactively invent the threat, wrap it in emotional anecdotes, and hope nobody notices the timeline doesn’t make sense.
Afshin Rattansi:
“Americans pay $2 billion a day for the Iran war.”
Afshin Rattansi:
“Why did the US launch this war when there wasn’t an Iranian threat to the US before February 28th?”
Robert Harward:
“Your premise was there is no threat from Iran. Sure. If they bomb us and we all leave, I guess there’s no threat.”
Afshin Rattansi:
“You can’t say ‘They were a threat…
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