As the Middle East's immediate western neighbour, Europe should act now to prevent an attack on Iran

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from the GuardianUK:

The world can't wait
As the Middle East's immediate western neighbour, Europe should act now to prevent an attack on Iran.
Joschka Fischer

February 27, 2007 9:00 PM | Printable version

Should Iran be attacked this year, the consequences will be borne first and foremost by the region, but also by Europe.

America's capital is once again abuzz with talk of war, not only of the latest "strategy for victory" in Iraq, but now also of military action against Iran. The harder it becomes to discern any rationality in the Bush administration's actions, the louder the rumour mill grinds.

Will Bush order an air and special forces attack on Iran?

Ever since Bush's state of the union address at the end of January, hardly a day has passed without something happening in connection with Iran or without the Bush administration's ratcheting up its rhetoric. Clearly, the US is also pressing ahead with preparations for an air strike. (A more extensive military commitment is scarcely possible, given how overstretched US ground forces already are.)

Indeed, the confrontation with the Iranians in Iraq is visibly intensifying, and it may be gathering strength elsewhere as well. A bomb directed at the Iranian revolutionary guard recently exploded on Iran's border with Afghanistan. And there are, of course, new attempts by the United States to drum up "evidence" of an Iranian threat that may justify an attack.

Is this all a bluff? The world could perhaps calmly wait for an answer, but for the fact that the progress of Iran's nuclear programme and the approaching end of President Bush's term might create an incalculable dynamic of its own. ....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/joschka_fischer/2007/02/europe_america_and_the_drumbea.html

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1. Why would they want to do that?

The Caspian Basin oil is still the goal. Europe needs it as much as anyone. Let the US play out its idiocy and kill lots of indigenous people who might object to massive oil theft.

What makes you think that Europe, already terrified of its Muslim populations, is eager to help any of them? (Although prosperous Muslim nations would cause many ex-patriots to move back home, as has happened with Ireland.)

The United States is destroying itself. Europe doesn't necessarily hate that. Lotta new alliances being forged these days.

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2. I didn't write it....just posted it.

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