If the US went to war against Tehran...

[capt_buzzard]

The diplomatic uproar over an attack on Iran would eclipse the Iraq controversy.If the US went into Iran, it would do so vertually alone, with not even the semblance of the "Coalition of the Willing" that unseated the bold Saddam. Even Britain would be missing, Instead Israel, the one country that could never go to war with Iraq, just might be America's only ally, inflicting yet more damage, were that possible, to the standing of the US in the ISLAMIC world.

The Military attack itself would pose daunting problems. True, US forces are now based in Afghanistan and Iraq. But its military is overstretched and the 150,000 troops in Iraq.

If attacked, Iran would pull every lever to cause trouble on a global scale. What then?

[Suresh Gupta]

I think it will be another costly mistake. There is a debate going on if Iraq war was a mistake. Will they learn from it?

[Lon]

I'd give three to one odds that the U.S. would not go to war against Iran.

They can't afford it, military spread too thin throuout the world and it would cause a virtual uprising in the States and probably elswhere.

[Suresh Gupta]

Lon wrote: I'd give three to one odds that the U.S. would not go to war against Iran.

They can't afford it, military spread too thin throuout the world and it would cause a virtual uprising in the States and probably elswhere.


You are right. The people are not in favour of another war. This feeling is so intense in US and also world over that it would be very difficult to ignore it by Bush and his administration.

[capt_buzzard]

LT flora wrote: The UN should attack iranThe UN today is run by Iran & Co

[Suresh Gupta]

capt_buzzard wrote: The UN today is run by Iran & Co


Then it will be called self-attack like self-goal in football.