‘US planning strike against Iran’
And why not? We’ve got 130,000 troops right next door in Iraq serving as IED fodder, so why not give them something constructive to do? Besides, Iran has a certified nutjob and DUMB@$$ for a President (ah…perhaps we have more in common with Iran than we realize, eh??). Whether or not Iran possesses nuclear weapons is an open question, but if they don’t have the Bomb now, it’s just a matter of (likely not very much) time.
The question, of course, is whether we should invade a sovereign country led by an unstable, belligerent dickweed- especially when our own government is run by an unstable, belligerent dickweed? Certainly, no reasonable person would argue that a nation which still officially reviles the US as the “Great Satan” has any business with nuclear weapons. Indeed, we should be doing everything within our power to ensure that Iran is not allowed to achieve their goal of joining the nuclear club. (Great…that’s all we need; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his finger on the nuclear trigger.)
Here’s what I want to know, though: why does this have to be solely an American responsibility? Given that Europe and the Middle East will benefit most directly from ensuring that Iran doesn’t go nuclear, why are none of these governments contributing to, or indeed even taking the lead in the effort to rein Iran’s nuclear weapons program in?
The United States government reportedly began coordinating with NATO its plans for a possible military attack against Iran.
The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel collected various reports from the German media indicating that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are examining the prospects of such a strike.
According to the report, CIA Director Porter Goss, in his last visit to Turkey on December 12, requested Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide military bases to the United States in 2006 from where they would be able to launch an assault.
The German news agency DDP also noted that countries neighboring Iran, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, and Pakistan were also updated regarding the supposed plan. American sources sent to those countries apparently mentioned an aerial attack as a possibility, but did not provide a time frame for the operation.
Although Der Spiegel could not say that these plans were concrete, they did note that according to a January 2005 New Yorker report American forces had entered Iran in 2005 in order to mark possible targets for an aerial assault.
How many more Americans are going to have to die while doing the dirty work for the rest of the world? It would seem that European and Middle Eastern governments are quite content to allow Our Glorious Leader to commit American troops to doing the fighting and dying. It certainly is more convenient, I suppose. When you have an American President willing to go it alone, why should other governments face the domestic music of their own casualties when an American presence means never having to do any of the heavy lifting themselves?
Yesterday, Afghanistan. Today, Iraq. Tommorrow, Iran. And this doesn’t even begin to take Syria into account. The fun is only just beginning, eh?
The Global War On Terror: the gift that just keeps on giving!! Coming soon to a corrupt Third World hellhole near you….
