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The novelist Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) wrote that patriotism essentially means killing whomever your government tells you it is fashionable to kill.
Right now, killing Iranians is very much a la mode, but it’s a been simmering for a long time. Aside from the canards about Iran being the center of world terrorism, there is also an unforgiving feud from 1979.
A few days after the recent attack on Iran, my brother and I discussed the situation; I somewhat reluctantly, because I knew we’d be at loggerheads. I considered our undeclared attack criminal and illegal and, going by UN dictates, a war crime. He saw it differently. (more…)