MIDDLE EAST - In recent weeks I had come to the conclusion that there probably would not be a war with Iran in 2019, but now I have to admit that I was wrong. US officials were very quick to blame Iran for the attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, and President Trump’s advisers have reportedly been pushing him very hard to strike Iran. President Trump had been hesitant to engage Iran militarily, but now it appears that he is going to give the war hawks in his administration exactly what they want.
According to the Jerusalem Post, a bombing campaign is being planned that “will be massive but will be limited to a specific target”… The military action under consideration would be an aerial bombardment of an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program, the officials further claimed. “The bombing will be massive but will be limited to a specific target,” said a Western diplomat. If this happens, it will start a war.
Unfortunately, events are beginning to spin out of control very rapidly now. Iran is home to more than 81 million people, it is armed to the teeth, and it is the global central hub for Shia Islam. It would be the biggest war that the United States has fought since World War II, and the Iranians would fight to the death and they would throw everything that they have at us. That would include unleashing all Iranian and Hezbollah operatives in North America to conduct widespread terror operations.
Blood would be spilled on a massive scale, and there would be great chaos inside our own nation. Are we sure that we really want that? There is no way that we should be rushing into a war with Iran, because the consequences of such a war could be unthinkable.