A Case for Iran War: a Little Washington Post Editorial…………..
"Si vis pacem, para bellum...." A dead Roman
“Prepare for war with Iran -- in case Israel strikes. Let's be serious for a moment: Barack Obama will not bomb Iran. This is not because he is a liberal, or because he is a peacenik, or because he doesn't have the guts to try and "save his presidency" in this time-honored manner, as Daniel Pipes has urged and Sarah Palin said she would like him to do. The president will not bomb Iran's nuclear installations for precisely the same reasons that George W. Bush did not bomb Iran's nuclear installations: Because we don't know exactly where they all are, because we don't know whether such a raid could stop the Iranian nuclear program for more than a few months, and because Iran's threatened response -- against Israelis and U.S. troops, via Iranian allies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon -- isn't one we want to cope with at this moment. Nor do we want the higher oil prices that would instantly follow. No American president doing a sober calculation would start a war of choice now, while U.S. troops are actively engaged on two other fronts, and no American president could expect public support for more than a nanosecond. ……..”
“Because we don't know exactly where they all are, because we don't know whether such a raid could stop…..”. Anne Applebaum left out the MOST important reason not to attack Iran: the United States has no legal justification to attack a country ten thousand miles away that has not attacked the United States or any of her allies. But then many pundits of the NY Times and Washington Post crowd leave such legal niceties out when discussing one side of the he Middle East.
I won’t even mention the serious nut cases of the Weekly Standard and the rest.
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