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Pentagon ‘very worried’ about Iran war
“[The] military is very worried about what they’re confronting with budget cuts and are just not anxious to take on another war,” Lee Hamilton, a member of the US Homeland Security Advisory Council, said in an interview with Politico on Tuesday.
“They see the difficulty of this situation from a military standpoint, not only the attack itself but sustaining the attack over a period of days, if not weeks. … A very powerful factor here is what the Pentagon now calls persistent conflict or endless war. We have, in effect, been at war for 10 years, at least since 9/11,” the former US congressman added.
Last month, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey also said a potential Israeli military attack on Iran would be “destabilizing.”
“It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” Dempsey said, adding that the US government is confident the Israelis “understand our concerns.”
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.
In an interview with the Atlantic magazine last Friday, US President Barack Obama said the US is “not taking any option off the table” in its purported bid to stop Iran’s nuclear energy program.
“It includes a military component. And I think people understand that,” Obama added.
Iran has repeatedly refuted the Western allegations regarding its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
8 Comments on "Pentagon ‘very worried’ about Iran war"
BillT on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 3:44 am
First, there have been ZERO military budget cuts. ZERO! There have been cut to proposed increases, but no re reduction in money flowing into the MIC. So that report is BS.
Second, this is just another way of the MIC asking for more money so we can go to war, again.
Third, maybe there really is some intelligence in Washington that realizes what could be set off by an attack on Iran?
But then, reality or intelligence has not visited Washington in decades, maybe not even in the last 100 years.
indigomoon on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 4:20 am
Shouldn’t they be more worried that Panetta basically told Congress yesterday to pound salt? Told Congress that they would “seek international approval” not that of Congress?
Anvil on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 5:03 am
1913 reality permanently checked out of the USA.
shaheer on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 7:15 am
If they’re so damn anxious not to go to war then don’t bloody well start a war. God damn morons.
BillT on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 8:04 am
Anvil, you are correct.
Arthur on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 9:18 am
Anvil, from an European view, the US thrived ever since 1913, whatever might have happened in that year, apart from establishing the FED. But yes, the US elites have the same hubris as the British inperialists used to have up until 1914. But as we all know, hybris is no garantee for the future. But I am afraid that unlike the USSR, the US will go with a bang, not with a whisper.
Ham on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 12:10 pm
Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya. Fifty countries of dropped bombs since WWII. Consumption of 1/3 of World resources and 1/4 of daily oil. Six million in jail, half of them making bombs on 15 cents per day. Play station drones in the sky. A legacy of a landscape of nodding donkeys, creaking, slowly grinding to halt with a thud.
BillT on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 3:02 pm
Ham, perfect description of the US of A.