It's Time to Get Tough on Iran
foreignpolicy.com / MICHAEL EISENSTADT, DAVID CRIST
12-Aug-2010 (5 comments)


The media has recently been rife with speculation about the possibility of a U.S. or Israeli preventive strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure -- from former CIA Director Michael Hayden's observation last month that the drift toward military action against Iran appears "inexorable" to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen's recent statement that the U.S. military has drawn up plans to attack the Islamic Republic. But, given recent developments in Iran, it is at least as likely that an increasingly belligerent Tehran will be the one that makes the move that sparks a conflict with the United States -- whether by an act of terrorism, by facilitating insurgent attacks in Iraq or Afghanistan, or by a military provocation in the Gulf or elsewhere -- unless Washington, acting with both caution and firmness, moves to avert such an eventuality.

There are a number of reasons that Iran, rather than the United States or Israel, may act first. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and other senior officials have proclaimed on numerous occasions their belief that the United States is a declining power, that the international order that underpinned U.S. influence is crumbling, and that U.S. strength has been sapped by long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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MOOSIRvaPIAZ

i'm sorry onlyiran

by MOOSIRvaPIAZ on

you are right. I stand corrected. I had a bit much to drink last night and frankly, all this war talk in the media is pissing me off.


Patriot

Killing the messenger

by Patriot on

Onlyiran,

Thanks for the news you post. Hopefully most of us are adult enough to make up our own minds about what we read.


Bavafa

MOOSIR jan, he got you there and he is right

by Bavafa on

Throwing this "anti-Iran" so randomly will only weaken its meaning. It is just how the West is accusing/labeling any one they don't like as "terrorist". The word has lost its meaning.

Mehrdad


Onlyiran

That's funny Moosir because

by Onlyiran on

you didn't say that when I posted the Leverett's piece arguing against war with Iran, or called Jeffery Goldberg on his propaganda.  Posting news is what it is.  You don't have to agree with it.  Reading different points of view is a sign of democracy and freedom of speech.  Why are you so afraid of someone who has a different view on things than you?  Why can't you just respond to the article and say why it's wrong?

Anyway, this whole "anti-Iran" accusation and paranoia is getting rather old, clumsy and stupid.   


MOOSIRvaPIAZ

hiding behind "onlyiran" to post anti-iran propaganda

by MOOSIRvaPIAZ on

good one.