Comments on: This is how wars start… Iran and the US http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/08/this-is-how-wars-start-iran-and-the-us/ Perspectives on Media, Climate, Energy, Politics... in Port Alberni, BC, Canada, the World Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:51:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: chrisale http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/08/this-is-how-wars-start-iran-and-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-4837 chrisale Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:44:59 +0000 http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/08/this-is-how-wars-start-iran-and-the-us/#comment-4837 I think it's very hard to judge when or if conflict will break out. It seems like the rhetoric just gets more and more heated. We can't even use Iraq as an example. The Iranian leadership is completely different... the Iranian people are completely different. Iran actually *has* a known program, but to my knowledge, aside from Iraq, Iran has never aggressively attacked a nation. My feeling is that Iran will not be the one to act first because they know that they would get far more support from their citizens, and from the International community, if they were hit first... no matter what they did in response. There is a lot of talk about the end of this month as being a possible time for an attack to happen. That's what the conspiracies say anyway. ;) Personally... who the heck knows... it seems that, with Iraq in the state it is... the powerkeg is there. Just waiting for the match. I think it’s very hard to judge when or if conflict will break out.

It seems like the rhetoric just gets more and more heated. We can’t even use Iraq as an example. The Iranian leadership is completely different… the Iranian people are completely different. Iran actually *has* a known program, but to my knowledge, aside from Iraq, Iran has never aggressively attacked a nation.

My feeling is that Iran will not be the one to act first because they know that they would get far more support from their citizens, and from the International community, if they were hit first… no matter what they did in response.

There is a lot of talk about the end of this month as being a possible time for an attack to happen. That’s what the conspiracies say anyway. ;)

Personally… who the heck knows… it seems that, with Iraq in the state it is… the powerkeg is there. Just waiting for the match.

]]> By: David Billington http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/08/this-is-how-wars-start-iran-and-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-4836 David Billington Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:13:24 +0000 http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/08/this-is-how-wars-start-iran-and-the-us/#comment-4836 To judge from the rhetoric on each side, the danger of an American war with Iran looks very high, and I can't see it as less than a disaster for both if it happens. The trouble is that I can't get a sense of when a conflict might break out. Any thoughts? To judge from the rhetoric on each side, the danger of an American war with Iran looks very high, and I can’t see it as less than a disaster for both if it happens. The trouble is that I can’t get a sense of when a conflict might break out. Any thoughts?

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