A Modest Proposal for the Strait Dispute: A Shared Pact Among Gulf States - The New York Times

A Modest Proposal for the Strait Dispute: A Shared Pact Among Gulf States - The New York Times FM: John Whitbeck At a time when humanity is being held hostage by the diametrically opposed positions of Iran and the United States regarding "control" of the Strait of Hormuz, transmitted below is a report on a proposal currently being floated that offers a potentially viable alternative to a global depression and/or a nuclear-bomb-generated "win" for Donald Trump. Of course, Israel would be fiercely opposed to any peace settlement which permitted not only Iran's survival but also correct and cooperative relations between Iran and Gulf states which Israel has been seeking, with some success, to coopt into subservience to its regional hegemony, and it would be astonishing if Donald Trump were ever to choose to put the interests of the American people and the world ahead of Israeli desires. Nevertheless, this proposal, which would require the leaders of Gulf countries to ignore the wishes of Israel and the United States in favor of the interests of their own countries and people, does offer a glimmer of hope. NOTE: I hope that I am not alone in finding it remarkable that the U.S. government, which launched its latest criminal war of aggression by assassinating Iran's leader and most of his family and slaughtering some 160 schoolgirls, deems the deaths during Iranian retaliation against its latest war crimes of two of its "service members", who, after all, have volunteered to serve as professional killers in an army of aggression, as an outrage justifying further "punishment" of Iran. The deaths of soldiers in wars, even justified wars, used to be deemed an inevitable and acceptable aspect of wars.