Press TV - The Donald Trump administrations belligerency towards Iran and its double standards on terrorism is due to US officials believing in American exceptionalism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.
Hoenig made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Friday when asked to comment on Trump administration officials recent statements in which they accused Iran of sponsoring and exporting terrorism.
This is ironic coming from a country that has been at war with one country or another for 224 years out of its 241 years as a sovereign nation, Hoenig said.
On the other hand, Iran has not attacked any country in its past 200 years and has been the victim of US aggression since 1953, with the overthrow of its elected government, the installation of the despotic Shah, supporting Iraq in its aggressive war against Iran, and continuing sanctions and cyberwarfare, he stated.
Why this is so goes back to the American view of exceptionalism. Whatever the US does is justified and for that narrative to work (for themselves) they need to pick an enemy du jour and transfer their practices onto them, the analyst noted. Yet it seems that the US is losing control of its unilateral polar world power. When Iran is not being targeted, Russia is.
With the Trump administration losing friends and allies all over the world, countries like Iran and Russia still need to worry about US military strength and its belligerency, but more and more countries are seeing the US as the most destabilizing force in the world, creating partnerships not seen before, and creating alliances that will overcome past US dominance, Hoenigstated.
Trump IS American foreign policy; boorish, megalomaniac, simple minded and singularly focused, aggressive and intolerant of anyone that does not bow down to its dominance. We are at a point in world history where the earth is shaking. As Lenin said, There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen, Hoenig concluded.
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