Source : INDIA TODAY NEWS
How many American leaders does it take to tell the American people and the rest of the world about why America attacked Iran, again, while comfortably winning at the negotiating table, again? Apparently not as many as there are.
President Trump is a master communicator. Every day, he convinces the world about a new reason why he attacked Iran in a war of choice that is killing children, destroying hospitals and demolishing the global economy every day. Every time Trump speaks, he tries to be convincing with his reasons, even if they contradict his other reasons.
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For example, President Trump stated that he triggered the world into this war because Iran was going to attack first and he didn’t want it to happen. Or, America was going to attack anyway and force Israel’s hand. Or, Iran would have a nuclear weapon in two weeks and if not attacked by the US, they would use it on America. Or, Iran is working to build missiles that will soon reach the US.
Or, the regime continued developing long-range missiles that can now threaten America’s very good friends and allies in Europe, troops stationed overseas. Or, this is the single biggest chance for the Iranian people to take back their own country that no US president was willing to offer and one which Iranians have always pleaded to America for. Or, this was the best chance to strike and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by a sinister regime.
Or, if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protestors, the US will come to their rescue. Or, at the time of writing this article, the reason is an unconditional surrender and letting Trump choose the new supreme leader. A new day and a new reason.
Right after the premeditated attack in the middle of the negotiations, the shocked global and American opinion makers called it a War of Choice by Trump. Two days into the illegal Iran attack, Secretary of State Marco Rubio seized the moment by himself to clear the fog of Trump’s logic for the war. He brazenly told the world that this is Netanyahu’s war.
If the US had not attacked alongside Netanyahu, Israel would have attacked unilaterally, creating danger to US bases as well as diminishing the US role. His statement stunned America and the world. In other attempts to explain the reason for war, Rubio has said that in over a year, Iran would have amassed enough missiles and drones to be immune to any attack and thereby become a danger to the world.
In a fresh spin when regime change dominated the American commentary on the logic of war, Rubio debunked it, saying regime change is not an objective and generously romanticised his hope of Iranian people overthrowing the regime and making a future for themselves. In yet another statement, Rubio said that a predictable state of failure in negotiations became the trigger to war.
It seems the latest reason that Rubio stands shoulder to shoulder with Trump is that it was the President’s intuition that pressed the trigger.
Not to miss their moment on the world stage, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have their own reasons for war. Vance blamed it on Iran failing the smell test with respect to enrichment levels of Uranium beyond civilian use. With everyone around him shifting the goalposts, he soon stumbled for a new reason – changing the mindset of the Iranian regime to never ever think about nuclear weapons.
Vance did diversify the portfolio of reasons by saying that regime change can be incidental and this is going to be a surgical war. Going by the way, the war has expanded, one can expect new reasons from Vance. In contrast, Hegseth took his role as a commander. In his latest analysis of the war, he spoke words such as unfair war, raining hell, death, and destruction from sky, sea, and ground and more in a language that will exemplify a commander of the world fighting aliens to secure humanity except that the opinion makers called it a war crime like language.
Hegseth has built his own wild portfolio of reasons – Iran was building conventional missiles and drones to blackmail its way to nuclear weapons, Trump is finishing a 47-year war of the death cult of Iran, crazy Islamic regimes should not have the ability to have nuclear weapons, and the idea of fighting without any rules of fair play and human outcomes.
The most succinct narrative amongst the wild set of ever-changing reasons comes from the brilliantly articulate White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. The otherwise confused world, shocked by the death and destruction in this human horror, immediately understood why millions of people are in the unimaginable misery of war. It is because the President has a good feeling. American MAGAs may agree to it, but Tucker Carlson disagrees.
(Ghanshyam Tiwari is the national spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party. He is also the founder of PI India and GoodEd)
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(Views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author)
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SOURCE :- TIMES OF INDIA
