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I have seen and heard many things in my life but few were as absurd as the subject question of this article.

Should America attack Iran?
Have we not learned anything from the current situation in Iraq? It's an almost daily occurrence in the war-torn nation that innocents, coalition troops and insurgents are killed. Reports from the nation almost invariably begin with, "in the deadliest day so far..." They go on to describe yet another explosion that kills people in numbers anywhere from single to triple figures. Usually occupying troops, sometimes insurgents, almost always innocent civilians.

The nightmare began with the 9/11 attacks. America watched on CNN as the aircraft slammed into the towers. She watched as the symbols of her might fell killing around 5000 people. The world condemned such atrocity.
And at this point, America chose the wrong path. In a transparent knee-jerk reaction, Bush ordered his armies of war to invade and in a show of precise force, they virtually levelled the chosen targets. Ground invasion followed and within a relatively short space of time (when compared with other wars) victory was claimed.
Things have descended rapidly downhill ever since and Bush, in an act of desperation, has committed more troops in the forlorn hope that they may be able to stem the rising tide of insurgency.
They haven't been and they won't be and realistically, the only option is to withdraw and try another way. What is that way? Well, that's for another article however what it is most definitely NOT - is attacking Iran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's volatile President hasn't shown anything but contempt for the West and sits almost fidgeting in his desire to face-off with the US. Like the rest of the Muslim world, he is giving those who criticize the metaphorical finger and his defiance knows no limit.
We're told he is anything from 3 to 10 years from having operational nuclear weapons, which in one way, makes an invasion attempt slightly less worrisome as it would rely on "traditional" warfare. But on the other, such warfare as demonstrated every day in Iraq, is not much better in terms of death and destruction.
So in answer to the question, "should America attack Iran?" No. If you have any desire to see your country survive another century, you will think very hard and very carefully before you attempt such folly.
America desperately needs a new strategy. And it's based on fighting fire with fire. Orthodoxy cannot and will not defeat terrorism.

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