Can anyone believe Clinton?

A US legislator has come up with an interesting reason for President Trump having launched the war against Iran: “to draw attention away from the Epstein files.”

Well, the Epstein files have got more attention recently, because of ex-President Bill Clinton giving a deposition at home in New York State, in which he said he did not know about anything. He gave some idea of how Epstein surrounded himself with rich and famous people: he lent them his plane the way people lend their cars during election campaigns over here.

Epstein not only lent him his plane for a trip to Africa, but he also lent Clinton an air hostess to give him a neck massage. That flight attendant had herself been a victim of Epstein, whose modus operandi seems to have been to get girls, usually under 18, to give him massages, after which he would criminally assault them. Clinton also had no memory of the 17 visits Epstein made to the White House when he was President. He also deposed that he had seen no minor girls when meeting Epstein.

He did confirm that present President Donald Trump had told him why he had broken off his friendship with Epstein: he was poaching female staff. Look, Clinton seems to think fooling around goes with the territory: before Monica Lewinsky when he was President, there was Paula Jones when he was Arkansas Governor. Do you believe him, dear reader?

What I don’t think is that the war was launched because of the Epstein files. That would mean having to believe that Shah Mehmood Qureshi launched it. He has the greatest motive to stop the discussion, not because he is supposed to have availed himself of the facilities Epstein offered, but because he was mentioned in an email as being worth cultivating, which his leader Imran Khan was not. Qureshi has since been in a lot of hot water.

Actually, I think the war was launched so that Trump could achieve a great double, that of bridging the Shia-Sunni sectarian divide.

Look, he succeeded in getting all those leaders of the Muslim world, including our PM, to meet him on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last year to approve his Gaza Peace Plan. That made him Amirul Momineed, the Sunni Caliph, a post vacant since 1924, when Caliph Abdul Majid was deposed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly and sent into exile.

Now it seems, he wants to become the arbiter of Shia-ism. His blunt statement that Mojtaba Khamenei is unacceptable to him as Supreme Leader was a clear message that he felt qualified to dictate to the Assembly of Experts its choice of Supreme Leader. I wonder that he himself is not a candidate. Or does he want to fill the gap left by the Fatimid Caliph, which fell in 1171. It was an Ismaili Caliphate, so maybe the Isna’ashariya will be better represented by Trump being elected Supreme Leader.

Whatever the reason, Israeli attacks have been remarkably consistent. The attack on the girls’ primary school shows that the tactics it used in Gaza are being carried over, and Iranian infrastructure is being destroyed. Schools, hospitals are top of the list, because it’s human infrastructure that must be eliminated.  Bridges, irrigation works and pumping stations can come later. The Israelis might find the task is beyond them, though, because Iran is much bigger than the Gaza Strip, and about 45 times more populous.

However, there has been a logical progression: Israel found just how the rest of the world would react to the destruction it was spreading in Gaza, how far it would protest. It now seems to have decided that it could resist. After all, the Palestinians also had support because they were occupied, while Iranians are supposed to be protesting in favour of tearing down the regime.

Our houses and buildings are safe, as are our schools and hospitals. The only price we are paying for being a nuclear power is the price of petrol going through the roof. As a matter of fact, the price is going up even for those who are not nuclear powers. Our government thinks we can escape by currying up to the Americans. Actually, our crime is so great that I suspect even recognizing Israel would not save us.