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TwilightGardener

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4. Gates and Rice were opposed to attacking Iran, with two ground wars already raging.

Reply to Enrique (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:20 PM

Feb 2013

Once Afghanistan is almost completely drawn down in the next year, the pressure to strike Iran will almost certainly ratchet up, and the GOP and the media will declare Obama's presidency a failure (at least on foreign policy grounds) if Iran does develop nuclear weapons. I think one morning in the next two years, we will wake up and hear about an airstrike, either by us or by Israel (which will involve us as well). I have little hope.

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