American political spokesmen seem to just assume that the USA has a God-given right to attack any country it wishes to any time it wishes to, and this assumption is implicitly woven into statements by the US media all the time....such as the following statements today quoted regarding Robert Gates, President Bush's new choice to take over the Pentagon in the place of Rumsfeld:

"Gates did not completely rule out an attack on Iran, which insists its nuclear program is only for power generation, but said: "I believe that military action against Iran would be an absolute last resort."

"He also said he did not favor an attack on Syria, another foe of the United States in the Middle East"

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Well. What collosal gall and hubris is demonstrated by these kind of statements, often repeated on USA media. What other western country's media openly discusses the possibility of "attacking" this or that other country at some point? Who else would have that much gall? That much nerve?

Hitler had that much nerve, and we see where it eventually got him.

It's a kind of Orwellian media technique, this constant speaking of the readiness to attack this or that other country which has somehow failed to meet American requirements or demands in some way. By talking about it all the time, one normalizes the idea in the minds of the American public. They begin to think it is perfectly normal and acceptable to openly threaten other countries with attack, label them as "evil", identify them as "a foe of America", and speculate about when it would be most advantageous to invade them!

Un-frikkin'-believable. This is criminal behaviour on the part of the USA, and would not be tolerated by the rest of the world, had the USA not the military and financial power to ignore what the rest of the world thinks most of the time.

This kind of arrogance, this kind of placid acceptance of the right of a major power to commit full-scale aggression at will against any small, weak target of choice is almost without precedent in modern times, unless one compares it with the actions taken by the fascist nations, Germany, Italy, and Japan in the late 30's and early 40's...and the action taken by Russia in the winter war against Finland in the same historical period.

All those actions, by the way, were opposed and condemned by the USA at the time, and regarded for what they were: naked, illegal aggression by the large against the small.

The USA has thus become the very thing it promised to fight against back in those days. And so, much of the American public apparently takes such rhetoric for granted, as the next possible criminal assault upon another nation is openly discussed in their media.