Ignoring the Guardian’s silly spin on things for the moment, I want to question their axiom that this is a war somebody here wants. The truth is that nobody here wants to go to war with Iran; it’s just that the Iranians are forcing us to.
Before 1941, nobody in the US wanted war with Japan, but many people thought that such a war was increasingly likely, or even inevitable, because of unending Japanese militarism and aggression.
It took Pearl Harbor to force us into war. But today, with Iranian nuclear weapons and missile technology, we no longer can screw around until we are attacked.
And for their part, the Iranians are doing everything on their part to rattle sabres, brag and bloviate about how they are going to kick their enemies asses.
But even if you believe that this is all the US and Israeli belligerence, then why are all the Arab nations of the Gulf allied against the Iranian threat *to them*?
Saudi Arabia has announced that it *must* develop its own nuclear weapons to *counter* Iran’s nuclear weapons.
Yes, the radicals in Iran are beating the drums for war.
What many people don’t understand is their reason for doing so.
Simply put — and, yes, it seems fantastical and ridiculous — they need war to force the return of the “Mahdi.”
Terrible, but true.
Thirty plus years after Iran declared war on US, Iranian Revolutionary Guards are in Venezuela, Hezbollah set up shop in Mexico and the Muslim Brotherhood has an office or two in the White House.
In the meantime, ongoing US efforts to create a dialogue with Iran go nowhere.
If things continue like this the American people are going to need every blade of grass the Japanese feared so much because our political leaders do not act like they give a flying fig about our Nation’s continued existence.