The Coming American Suez?
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The invaluable chap M.J. Rosenberg argues that an American war against Iran would amount to "America's Suez".
In 1956, Great Britain alongside France and (naturally) Israel invaded Egypt and attempted to overthrow popular Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser under the pretext that he nationalized the Suez Canal and that this endangered Western shipping rights. Of course, that was bogus. Egypt did not intend to nationalize the Canal only to bankrupt a lucrative source of income for a poor nation by denying shipping rights for the West, the main source of income. And Nasser did not do that. The real reason was that a dying British empire and a delusional French government with imperial/Napoleonic ambitions found it an affront that Nasser refused to play the subservient role of a Western client and instead argued for an independent path for Arabs and for a foreign policy based on dignity.
As for Israel, it naturally just wanted to launch war on Egypt in order to expand its borders. Israel's then prime minister David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary that the Sinai does not rightfully belong to Egypt and that Israel is not done trying to expand its nation. Why doesn't the Sinai belong to Egypt? Well, because Zionism teaches that if anywhere a Jew held a picnic thousands of years ago is the property of the Jewish people today and because there's some Jewish history in Sinai Ben-Gurion wanted to steal it.
The tripartite invasion was eventually pushed back by the United States. And it is marked by history as the last moment of sunset on the British empire. The once mighty Queen's navy was dethroned and no longer able to strike anywhere with impunity. Britain no longer could dominate the world. It has overreached in Suez and this was the proverbial "jumping the shark".
May the United States face the same fate with a war with Iran: suffering a demonstration of the limits of its power? Being impelled back? No longer able to easily achieve its objectives?
The United States is more powerful today than Britain in 1956, but after two wars and record national debt and trillion dollar deficits a war with Iran - especially if prolonged - may be the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" and lead to a retreat in the American empire and a appreciation for a more limited role in the world.
Let's hope so. Because a America less an empire is better for freedom and liberty and the American people.
