This morning, Senator John McCain mapped out the Republican course to yet another war for the United States. It’s the same path that led to war against Iraq: Prove sanctions “don’t work”, and then launch an attack. “Sanctions have to be tried before we explore the last option,” McCain said. Of course, sanctions have been “tried” with Iran for the last three decades.
If the U.S. were to launch an attack on Iran, our nation’s military would be fighting in a continuous swath of territory from the Iraqi border with Syria and Jordan all the way into Pakistan.
Americans with a longer memory than the latest Dancing With The Stars competition will remember that George W. Bush once claimed that the invasion of Iraq would deter Iran from continuing with its nuclear program. John McCain stood with George W. Bush in such claims of a deterrent Iraqi conflict, but it’s clear now that the war in Iraq has created no stability, no spread of democracy, and no end to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
McCain’s “last option” has been a miserable failure in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the USA doesn’t have the resources to pick a new fight. This time around, why don’t we try a different approach? Let’s start with the presumption that we’re not going to fight a new war, and work to develop new, peaceful strategies, other than sanctions, for dealing with international problems instead.
After years of blustering toward Iran by politicians like Bush and McCain, we can’t truly say that peaceful strategies have been “tried”.
This talk is useless…end this by turning Iran into one big hunk of glass. No tears will be shed by their neighbors…that will also put Chavez, Ill and Putin on notice to knock the bullshit off cause we mean business. But Obama has no ability to do anything but line his own pockets.
Tomas, the USA already tried that approach, remember? We turned Hiroshima and Nagasaki into radioactive rubble, and that encouraged other nations to develop nuclear weapons.
You’re encouraging the use of nuclear weapons against civilian populations so that nuclear weapons won’t be developed that could be used against civilian populations. The lack of sense in your arguments is so thorough that it’s almost comedic.