US officials must placate neocons, war hawks and Israel lobby: Analyst
Senior government officials in the United States are forced to make statements to “placate” and appease the pro-Israel lobby and neoconservative warmongers in Washington, a geopolitical commentator in Missouri says.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s recent article about maintaining the military option against Iran despite the recent nuclear accord underscores that senior US officials and politicians “are placating the right-wing, pro-Israel, war hawk crowd,” said Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today.
“Ash Carter is placating the war crowd, that’s what he’s doing, that’s exactly what he’s doing,” Henderson told Press TV on Saturday.
“It’s just amazing that this has to happen,” he added. "In America, you feel like you have to say these things to placate these psychopaths and these Israelis and Zionists and lobbyists like AIPAC,” he added.
In an opinion piece published Friday in the USA Today newspaper, the Pentagon chief said the Iran nuclear accord will leave Washington with a “more effective” military option if required.
"Indeed, the reality is that any prospective military option, if called for, will be more effective under this deal -- not less,” Carter wrote.
But Carter acknowledged that a US military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities will have severe consequences for Washington.
“While I am responsible for that alternative and know that it would be effective at setting back Iran’s nuclear program, it would do so with potentially serious second- and third-order repercussions,” he said.
Carter, however, defended the nuclear deal and urged Congress to support it, arguing it would lead to a more durable outcome.
Congress will vote this month on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached between Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – in Vienna on July 14.
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