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There will be lots of perspectives about the now ongoing military actions among the US, Israel, Iran and their allies. For many commentators, the favored perspective revolves around the contemporary version of the ancient "Jewish question," including most of the ancient tropes repurposed and sanitized for contemporary tastes. I am not going to bother with them; they remain so normalized in the discourse as to be unremarkable--and so remarkable for the power of an old cognitive cage. And they come in various flavors as a sort of seasoning applicable to virtually any substantive analytic focus. This does not suggest that there is something that "must be done" about it. But it does suggest the value of self consciousness in following cognitive pathways as if they were somehow either logical or natural. .
Changing the analytical lens even a little, that is changing the grounding premises through which one gathers facts, gives them value and then builds on them to produce an analysis that is the aggregation of those signified data points, also changes the analysis, or at least changes the "political" or "legal" message that these data points, appropriately arranged, are supposed to "show." In that light one might profit from reading through Zineb Riboua's recent essay, The Iran Question Is All About China: Why Operation Epic Fury Is the Opening Act of the Indo-Pacific Century. The essay follows berlow and may be accessed in the original HERE.
I do not propose that the4 essay is "right" or "wrong"--only that it provides a window looking out at a different landscape and a reminder that analysis may sometimes be more a reflection of the landscape within whicvh it is created than of itself without regard to its anchoring landscapes. In that sense, the lands capping may become more important than the analysis, and the analysis more infused with the sensibilities of propaganda or in its highest forms solidarity with a cognitive and analytocal orienting ideology than much of anything else.
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