Four Ways The U.S. Can Find Itself In A War With Iran

Four Ways The U.S. Could End Up At War With Iran Before The Election* -- Jay Newton-Small, Time

Most political analysts in Washington believe that war with Iran is unlikely, especially before the November U.S. elections. Politically it would be hard for President Obama to engage in another Middle Eastern war given the war weariness of the U.S. electorate, let alone the question of being able to afford it at a time when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from the Pentagon budget. There also seems little appetite from the international community to wage war with Iran, especially since Tehran is still allowing United Nations inspectors into their nuclear sites and, for the first time in recent history, sanctions seem to be working.

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My Comment: My prediction .... a war is not going to happen in 2012. Too much is happening politically and economically in the U.S. and the rest of the world that will not propel us down a path of war with Iran. The politics of "war talk" is there, but not the focus to actually prepare for it.