If the unthinkable happens (going it alone with Iran)

[im10ashus]

John Gittings
August 30, 2006 11:00 AM

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_gittings/2006/08/raising_the_stakes_on_iran.html

The US, we have been told in the past week, may "bypass the UN" on Iran and go it alone, forming an "independent coalition" to impose sanctions on Tehran. The formal expiry tomorrow (August 31) of the UN deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment will mark the start of a new stage in this crisis. It also adds force to a much bigger question: is the US now preparing, and if so how seriously, to "go it alone" by taking military action against Iran?

The last time this was suggested was by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker in April. As often happens with his stories, this one became polemicised with, broadly speaking, his conclusions being accepted by anti-war commentators and rubbished as anti-US propaganda by supporters of the Bush administration (though it's not clear why they should regard it as anti-US to suggest that Bush might go to war again - since they have applauded him for doing so before).

This time the hypothesis is not confined to Hersh. According to a United Press International editorial analysis (and UPI is not known for its radical views):

"...odds makers are betting that sometime before the end of his second term, President Bush will order a massive air attack on a wide range of carefully selected targets in Iran, in partnership with Israel, and against the advice of many of his advisers."

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[MADem]

1. I take issue with this sentence:

This time the hypothesis is not confined to Hersh. According to a United Press International editorial analysis (and UPI is not known for its radical views):

UPI is owned by that whackjob Reverend Moon. Their radical views are precisely the reason that Helen Thomas quit them.

[BlueCentrist]

2. If Bush isn't stopped

It is going to happen;Iran was part of the NeoCON agenda fron the start.

[im10ashus]

3. Yes indeed.

Then N. Korea. PNAC is not a fallacy in our heads.