Washington Times - EDITORIAL: Iran's provocation
Pushes fourth the viewpoint that Iran is essentially building nuclear weapons and is intent on provoking a war in the region.
Unless something drastic has changed the best public information about Iran's nuclear capability the 2007 NIE still puts Iran years away from developing nuclear weapons.
Photos and articles published today and backed up by comments from the state department supported the opinion that one of the nine missile fired in the Wednesday exercise failed to fire and was subsequently fired today.
There is just no contest here. America military domination is clear to anyone who's spent 10 minutes watching home video from soldiers in Iraq. A fast stop on the wikipedia shows clearly the dominant posture of American forces in the region.
For all the quoted Iranian bluster they have nothing to stand on.
If America and her allies go on the offensive this will be a very short war.
The consequences though will perhaps be devastating. An expansion of the middle eastern war to Iran will make it virtually impossible to extract American or UN forces from the region for decades to come.
With the direct costs of the Iraq war mounting into the hundreds of of billions and America's deficiet rapidly approaching 1/4 of the worlds entire economy. The cost of expanding the war into Iran could be unimaginable.
While clearly it's crucial to maintain the stability of Israel Iran has nothing, then are years away from nuclear weapons and using them would spell certain destruction for there nation and there is little doubt much of this destruction would come in the form of Tactical Nuclear Weapons.
Iran is and has been a real threat to regional stability for decades, but very few people believe they would fire nuclear missiles at Israel, even fewer people believe they would survive long if they did.
Western Media is fueling a fire supported by people who believe in the inevitability of this conflict and it's divine results.
As has been clearly demonstrated with North Korea there is a better option.
While many contend that the government of Iran and thereby it's people are solely intent on the destruction of Israel the reality is there are not in any position to achieve these ends.
No real attempt has been made by western diplomacy to reach out to those in the Iranian government and public who support more moderate approaches.
The Zealots on both sides push for a war that will have no victor.
Pushes fourth the viewpoint that Iran is essentially building nuclear weapons and is intent on provoking a war in the region.
Unless something drastic has changed the best public information about Iran's nuclear capability the 2007 NIE still puts Iran years away from developing nuclear weapons.
Photos and articles published today and backed up by comments from the state department supported the opinion that one of the nine missile fired in the Wednesday exercise failed to fire and was subsequently fired today.
There is just no contest here. America military domination is clear to anyone who's spent 10 minutes watching home video from soldiers in Iraq. A fast stop on the wikipedia shows clearly the dominant posture of American forces in the region.
For all the quoted Iranian bluster they have nothing to stand on.
If America and her allies go on the offensive this will be a very short war.
The consequences though will perhaps be devastating. An expansion of the middle eastern war to Iran will make it virtually impossible to extract American or UN forces from the region for decades to come.
With the direct costs of the Iraq war mounting into the hundreds of of billions and America's deficiet rapidly approaching 1/4 of the worlds entire economy. The cost of expanding the war into Iran could be unimaginable.
While clearly it's crucial to maintain the stability of Israel Iran has nothing, then are years away from nuclear weapons and using them would spell certain destruction for there nation and there is little doubt much of this destruction would come in the form of Tactical Nuclear Weapons.
Iran is and has been a real threat to regional stability for decades, but very few people believe they would fire nuclear missiles at Israel, even fewer people believe they would survive long if they did.
Western Media is fueling a fire supported by people who believe in the inevitability of this conflict and it's divine results.
As has been clearly demonstrated with North Korea there is a better option.
While many contend that the government of Iran and thereby it's people are solely intent on the destruction of Israel the reality is there are not in any position to achieve these ends.
No real attempt has been made by western diplomacy to reach out to those in the Iranian government and public who support more moderate approaches.
The Zealots on both sides push for a war that will have no victor.
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