Does the Leader not see the irony in announcing, in effect, that we are thinking about attacking Iran yet it is Iran which constitutes a “dangerous threat to world peace?”

Apparently not. This is becoming the Great Thing That Must Not Be Spoken: That the United States reserves the right to attack virtually any nation at any time but it is these other nations who are a “dangerous threat to world peace” when they decline to toe the line that we draw in the sand before them. Arthur Silber, in writing about Hillary’s basic acquiescence to this type of thinking, says this:

And everyone knows — although no one will state explicitly — the meaning of that last vile phrase: “all options must remain on the table.” That means one thing, and only one thing: if Iran does not do exactly as we say, we reserve the “right” to attack it, to bomb it, and to destroy it — just as we have destroyed Iraq. But note what Clinton does not say: she does not postulate that Iran has directly threatened the United States, or that it has even indicated it wishes to threaten us. She does not imagine that Iran has attacked the U.S., or that evidence exists that it plans to do so. No, Iran’s crime would be of an altogether different kind: Iran will not have conducted itself in the manner that we demand. This has nothing at all to do with self-defense, if that phrase remains even tenuously tethered to reality. But it has everything to do with the title of my ongoing foreign policy series: “Dominion Over the World.”

Clinton has enunciated this position before. The ultimate meaning of this foreign policy stance is what I indicated at the conclusion of that article: “America is God. God’s Will be done.” Other nations must do exactly what we tell them to do, and nothing else at all. If they do not, we have the “right” to destroy them.

This is the meaning of American world hegemony.

You bet, and it doesn’t end with the Decider, and as we saw this past week, it’s making Russia leery. It sets up a situation where it begins to dawn on other nations that the real “dangerous threat to world peace” is the nation accusing everyone else of threatening the peace.

Ah, but because our nation manifestly good and the very embodiment of justice, it doesn’t matter that we wage war in the name of peace. Outcomes don’t matter; only intentions do. Or so the wishful neoconservative thinking goes.