Iran/Israel: Anybody Listening?

Israeli "red line" in regards to its nuclear program. For some time, Israeli leaders have stated that there is a point in the nuclear development process that Tehran will not be allowed to pass...., Crossing the Red Line, formerspook.blogspot.com

Formerspook's warning should raise the hair on the back of your neck, or anywhere else you may have hair (fewer and fewer places north of the shoulders for this writer). Military action by Israel against Iran (or vice versa) will start the largest war in the Middle East since World War I. Is that statement too bold?

Military action against Iran would require strikes against hundreds of targets. Iran has a large, if seriously flawed, military and a lunatic leadership transparently looking for a cause for war (largely to protect its own survival in the face of rising hatred by its own citizens). The mullahs threw a million lives away in a war with Iran twenty years ago. Does anybody seriously think they would care if they lost another million now? They've slaughtered hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of their own citizens for "moral" violations and dissent in the interim. They have crossed the frontier of mass murder time and again.

The risks are real. Formerspook doesn't seem to think this is playing very large in the minds of the State Department. The Bush Administration, hampered by the ongoing (and false) accusations that the Iraq war's basis was a sham, is severely limited in its politically available choices for restraining this potential conflict from exploding. And it will explode. When it does, $4 will seem like a cheap price for a quart of oil, never mind a gallon.

Luther