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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Thomas Walkom: Why we could be at war with Iran by November (in The Toronto Star)

"Would a war on Iran help the incumbent? In a rational world, the answer is no. The U.S. has just extricated itself from Iraq and is desperate to get out of Afghanistan.

"But the world of politics is not always rational. A joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran would win Obama praise from those firmly committed to the Jewish state — and that could be enough to give his Democrats the edge in, for instance, the key battleground of Florida."

Full article: Walkom: Why we could be at war with Iran by November.

A scary, but believable, scenario from The Star's Thomas Walkom. This could be a lot worse than Iraq or Afghanistan. It's not clear whether Israel would survive it either.