i-paper headline: Echoes of Empire? More like Gilbert and Sullivan
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=179034#179034
Trump is powering the UK’s preparations for war –
it is he who needs to be deterred, not Iran
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-tanker-crisis-trump-boris-johnson-hunt-strait-of-hormuz-war-a9015396.html
Let’s stop pretending that Middle East sanity can
emerge from the current inhabitant of the White House
Robert Fisk @indyvoices - Monday 23 July 2019
It’s about time we wised up to what is going on
in this utterly farcical “crisis” in the Gulf,
this charade of lies and pomposity which Trump
and his doggies in London are presenting to us.
An American president who is a racist,
misogynist, dishonest and psychologically
disturbed man – assisted by two vicious and
equally dishonourable and delusional advisers –
is threatening to go to war with Iran while a
kipper-waving and equally serial-lying buffoon,
who is probably the future British prime
minister, prefers to concentrate on the
self-destruction of his country rather than the hijacking of his ships.
The Iranians, ever the scheming Shia “terrorists”
of the Gulf, have dared to give two fingers to
the crackpot president who ratted on his
country’s international nuclear agreement with
Iran, and now play motor-boats in the Strait of
Hormuz to remind both Trump and Johnson – and
poor wee Jeremy Hunt – that the Middle East is
the graveyard of empires both real and long dead.
What mischief! What brazen terroristic crimes will the Persians be up to next?
And we take all this garbage seriously? Perhaps
we must blame ourselves. Our commentators and our
correspondents, our mighty media empires,
gleefully take down the sleazy characters in
Washington and London and then – the moment they
sniff war – their faces freeze in righteous and
patriotic lockjaw as they speak disingenuously of
Trump’s “Mid-East policy”, his “Gulf policy”, his
close friendship with his blood-spattered Saudi
“ally” or his land-grabbing Israeli ally.
What tosh. There is no Trump policy on anything.
Nor is there a Boris Johnson policy, nor a Jeremy
Hunt policy – save, perhaps, a plaintive Gilbert
and Sullivan bleat about Iran’s “totally and
utterly unacceptable” behaviour in nicking the Stena Impero.
“Impero” was the right word. Indeed, there was
nothing sadder or more pitiful than the sound of
the commander of HMS Montrose – or “Foxtrot 236”
as the Iranians addressed him by the frigate’s
bow number – reading his Victorian rulebook to
the Revolutionary Guards on Friday. “You must not
impair, impede, obstruct or hamper the passage of
the MV Stena Impero,” he quoth. Oh but the
Iranians could and did impair, impede, obstruct
and hamper the passage of the British-flagged tanker.
For they knew that the only British naval vessel
swanning around in the entire 251,000sq m of sea
which is the Arabian Gulf – or the Persian Gulf,
take your pick – was a 436ft-long frigate far too
far away to prevent such “impairment” and
“obstruction”. Long gone are the days when
15-year-old Horatio Nelson imperiously sailed the
Gulf up to Basra in the 18th-century 20-gun
frigate Seahorse under the captaincy of his uncle
Maurice Suckling. If HMS Duncan, named after the
18th-century victor of the Battle of Camperdown,
comes to the relief of HMS Montrose, named after
the 18th-century duke, they can only spend a few
weeks together. Then Montrose will head home.
In Nelson’s day, the royal navy possessed more
than 600 warships. Today, we have fewer than 20
to stop the Persian hordes – or Chinese hordes or
any other hordes – from impairing, impeding,
obstructing and hampering what we like to call
“our vital oil supplies”. It was somehow fitting
that the kidnapped tanker was running empty on
its way to the dictatorial kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, Trump’s loveable ally, when it was
hijacked. No wonder Jeremy Hunt wants to cool the
waters of the Gulf rather than order his tiny
ship to play escort with America’s mighty fleet.
Yet, it was truly fitting that on the cusp of a
new era of British self-delusion and imperial
mysticism, the Brits should have embarked on the
Monty Pythonesque seizure of the Iranian tanker
at Gibraltar. We were given to understand – and
here the blanket of bombast was richly
embroidered – that the Grace 1, boarded as
elegantly by the Royal Marines as their masked
Iranian opposite numbers were to rappel onto the
Stena Impero, was seized because she was carrying
oil to Syria. The EU, supposedly all too keen to
exercise such sanctions, said nothing. And then
Jeremy wanted to chat to the Iranians, to receive
assurances that their tanker was not headed to
Banias but – who knows? – to the Greek Islands, perhaps, or the Costa del Sol.
So, just to complete the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party,
the matter was handed over to the chief justice
of the Gibraltar Supreme Court whose political
jurisdiction – we are now supposed to believe –
embraces great affairs of state from Washington
and London to Tehran, even though the rock’s
population is less than 35,000 souls. Oh but yes,
we are told, the Gibraltar Supreme Court has
ordered the Grace 1’s detention for another 30
days. Well, well, we must do what this almighty
judiciary wishes. Truly, this is only one step
away from Trial By Jury, the comic opera which
our probable future prime minister must surely adore.
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Had the Americans not – as increasingly appears
to be the case – urged, told or instructed the
British to grab the Grace 1, be sure they would
not have done so. And be sure that if Jeremy had
declined to involve himself in this nonsense any
longer, the Gibraltar Supreme Court and its chief
justice and its three other judges would have
forgotten their legal mumbo jumbo, graced the
Iranian captain with their favour and wished him
God’s speed. But no. The moment we got involved
in this incendiary action, it was utterly
inevitable that the Iranians would do the same.
As I’ve often reflected, those Persian chaps
understand us much better than we understand them.
Come with me for a moment, then, to Tehran. Do we
really think that the Iranians – haughty, vain,
cruel and vindictive though they can be – are not
aware of Britain’s imminent Brexit
self-immolation? Do we imagine for a moment that
they have not grasped the intricacies of the
Johnson-Hunt battle, its outcome decided by a
cabal of Tories whose decisions make Iran’s
parliamentary and presidential elections look
like a model of international democracy? Be sure
the Iranians noted Boris Johnson’s kipper. But
they have bigger fish to fry in the Gulf.
And do we seriously believe that the Iranians
have forgotten the last “tanker war” in the Gulf
in 1987? I remember it very well. I reported the
whole wretched affair, literally flying over the
steaming Gulf on helicopters, day after day. The
climax came when the Americans decided to flag
Kuwaiti tankers with the Stars and Stripes and
give them a US naval escort to protect them from
Iranian air attacks. Today, it sounds familiar.
We were, at the time of course, allied with that
fine and democratic Arab warrior Saddam Hussein
who had invaded Iran in 1980 (at an ultimate cost
of more than a million lives). Well, the very
first escort mission went disastrously wrong –
although Trump, Hunt and Boris Johnson and Humpty
Dumpty have forgotten all this – when the Kuwaiti
tanker al-Rakkah, now nominally blessed as the US
tanker Bridgeton and accompanied by a clutch of
US naval vessels, hit an Iranian mine on 24 July 1987.
It was able to continue its voyage, but the
literally thin-skinned American warships – whose
sides were so fragile that a mine could have sunk
them – spent the rest of the journey in line
astern behind the Bridgeton like a gaggle of
chicks, using the vast carrier’s bulk to protect
themselves. The Iranians, as I say, will not have
forgotten this American humiliation. They are,
after all, specialists in humiliation when they
believe they have been humiliated.
But do we think that Trump’s ridiculous “Gulf
Protection Force” would fare any better? There
are few volunteers, but since Boris Johnson was
prepared to sink a British ambassador, I suppose
he might as well risk a British frigate or two.
The Iranians, again, will have worked all this
out. Their nuclear treaty, honourably signed with
the American president of the time, has been torn
up, eviscerated and most shamefully destroyed by
Trump. So after being ratted on by the Americans,
and force-fed more sanctions by the culprit, why
shouldn’t the Iranians play a few super-power
games of their own, using Her Britannic Majesty’s
innocent vessels on their play station? We still
haven’t grasped the true import – but again, be
sure the Iranians have – of Trump’s outrage at
Sir Kim Darroch’s diplomatic reporting on the US
destruction of the nuclear deal. Trump’s anger
was clearly intended to defenestrate the British
ambassador. He was saying “send him back” – as
surely as he wanted to send a US congresswoman
“back” for being rude to him. And our probable
future prime minister actually went along with it.
Yet amid this chicanery, we are still supposed to
spoon up the gruel that our imperial messengers
write for us, pretending yet again that there is
a Trump policy in the Gulf, that Middle East
sanity can emerge from the inhabitants of a
mental institution. Hence David Ignatius, an old
colleague of mine and a friend in the days of
Lebanon’s civil war, is now writing the following
codswallop in his US column: “As the United
States’ confrontation with Iran deepens in the
Persian Gulf ... the grim but necessary task is
to deter Iran and prepare for war, if deterrence fails.”
To do this, Mohammed bin Salman, according to the
aforesaid Ignatius, must take responsibility for
the butchery of Jamal Kashoggi and close down the
criminal Yemen war – as if the crown prince would
contemplate the second, let alone the first –
because “the US-Saudi relationship is important
for both countries’ security – especially as the
confrontation with Tehran edges closer to war ...
resetting the US-Saudi relationship on a more
honest basis is urgent now, as the danger of regional conflict grows.”
So forget the fact that Trump is a lunatic and
that the crown prince appears to be a deeply
disturbed young man and runs a psychotic state.
The White House is a mad house, but according to
Ignatius we must prepare for “the grim but
necessary task” of “deterring Iran” – rather than
deterring Trump – as “the danger of regional
conflict grows”. How can we go on taking this
twaddle? Is there not a switch-off button to
allow us the silence of reflection – at least a
few moments to contemplate that insanity is powering our preparations for war?
It might be a good idea, right now, to remember
what it’s like to patrol the Gulf off the Iranian
coastline. Just over 30 years ago, I was aboard
one of the Montrose’s older sister ships, the
frigate HMS Broadsword, as it escorted British
tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and under
the gaze of the Revolutionary Guards. To give
readers a touch of reality – real reality, so to
speak – this is what I wrote at the time:
“What afflicted most of the seamen in the Gulf
was the heat. It burnt the entire decks until
they were, quite literally, too hot to walk on.
British sailors stood on the edges of their shoes
because of the scalding temperatures emerging
from the steel. The depth-charge casings, the
Bofors gun-aiming device, were too hot to touch.
On the helicopter flight deck, the heat rose to
135 degrees, and only a thoughtless leading hand
would have touched a spanner without putting his
gloves on. It created a dull head, a desperate
weariness, an awesome irritation with one’s fellow humans on the foredeck.
Inside the ship … the heat shuffled through the
vessel faster than the seamen. The officer’s mess
was a cool 80 degrees. One glass of water and I
was dripping. Open the first watertight door and
I was ambushed by the heat … After the second
door, I walked into a tropical smelter, the
familiar grey monochrome sea sloshing below the
deck. How can men work in this and remain rational?”
Yes, I guess “reason” is what it’s all about, but
our masters no longer possess this faculty.
Broadsword was sold off to the Brazilians, by the
way, almost a quarter of a century ago, in 1995.
The Bridgeton was scrapped in India seven years
later. And that’s where our crazed leaders belong today: in the breakers’ yard.
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