I have written many times about the impending war with Iran and the cataclysmic effect of such an engagement. Russia is lining up on the other side of the ball and strategic Caspian Sea countries are joining the sentiment of Turkey as the Middle East descends into a US induced World War III.
Is it coincidence that we have Iran on two borders and flanked by an Armada in the Persian Gulf?
We have flash points on the Turkish Kurd border as thousands of Turkish troops stand ready to occupy with implications for Syria and Iran. Lebanon is staggering after being destroyed in the south by Israel and internally manipulated through terrorism by Syria. Palestine fragmented at its core as Hamas and the PLO are polarized causing geographical polarization between Gaza and the West Bank, furthering efforts to grab land. Syria poised on the Golan waiting for any excuse to attack as it is sore over a recent Israeli attack on a military sight under construction. Basra and the South of Iraq has been engulfed by internal Shia struggles all under the oversight of Iran as Iran has fought several wars to control the waterways at their common Persian Gulf border. Fighting rages in Waziristan and Pakistan is increasingly destabilized to make way for democracy. Afghanistan is woefully under funded and resourced, yet a strategic occupied territory to force Iran to fight from at least three directions.
Iran becomes increasingly belligerent and this feeds the ego of Dick Cheney and all the administrations War Hawks, perched ready to define the end game. They have been planning this since the embassy take over in 1979, somewhere in their minds it became personal and this is all about destroying this final axis of evil. Iraq is devastated; North Korea Pacified and now Iran will kneel.
History shows that the Persian Empire has been controlled in the last couple of centuries by both Britain and Russia to varying extents. The next 15 months must be met with US social upheaval at levels only known during the civil war. The Bush administration must not be allowed to attack Iran to prevent them from acquiring Nuclear independence, weapons or otherwise. The answer to all this madness is simple.
Lead an international treaty by dismantling and disposing of 50% of the US Nuclear arsenal. Forget about Non-proliferation as a means to an end. It only breeds dissent when some are allowed to possess such power and others are not, sovereignty aside.
15 months to do the world good or 15 months to sew the seeds of mass despair. Evil is what it is, pure evil.