Dick Cheney and the Inevitable War on Iran

Recently, George Stephanopoulos interviewed Dick Cheney for ABC’s “This Week” and asked him if a strike on Iran was inevitable. That’s like asking the Cowboys football coach if their team is going to win on Sunday.

Cheney answered, “I have trouble seeing how we’re going to achieve our objective short of that, and I doubt very much the diplomacy will be effective if there’s not the prospect that, if diplomacy fails, that we will, in fact, resort to military force.”

If their objective is to destabilize and dominate the region, I guess it would be hard to achieve short of military force. I mean, color revolutions, and radical jihadis alone wouldn’t be able to do the trick, and the supply of their forces has to be running a little thin right now anyway, so I can see Cheney’s point.

War with Iran would also seem inevitable if we take into consideration the possiblilty of a false flag attack or provocation of the type Cheney apparently discussed during a meeting in his office while he was still in the White House.

Pulitzer-Prize winner Seymore Hersh told Think Progress at a journalism conference in 2008, that during a meeting in Cheney’s office, many ideas of how to provoke a war on Iran were discussed. Among them, shooting at Navy Seals dressed up as Iranians on fake Iranian speedboats was considered.

Iran is still on the imperialists’ agenda, and when you consider that they have tactics like these being tossed around in the White House, a war on Iran does start to look at least highly possible.