Potential Strike on Iran

The article that I just read talks of the presence of two US aircraft carrier battle groups along with the French naval strike force carrier, the Charles De Gaulle. Now they are supposedly their to assist NATO in various drills in the region. They are also officially there to run some sorties over Afghanistan. However, the Russian’s claim to have intelligence that the US is planning to attack Iran with these carrier groups on April 6th at 0040 hours(12:40 A.M.). This supposed strike is supposed to be short and aimed solely at the nuclear facilities Iran is working to make capable of producing energy. However, this is very similar to what the US did back prior to the Vietnam war.

You see what we did was place our ships off the shores of Vietnam in hope that we would get a response which would in turn give the US an excuse to go to war. This came to a pinnacle when a Vietnamese patrol boat attacked a US ship in the gulf of Tonkin. This led to the US’s declaration of war against the Vietnamese.

My feeling is that we already have a just cause to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities. We must remember that they took 15 British soldiers from Iraqi waters and are now holding them in Tehran. If this is not enough to show they are a hostile nation then I do not know what is. However, I know that one thing the US must do is not back down. If we do strike Iran we cannot cower if they declare war on us. We must fight a full war to the greatest extent we are capable. In short we cannot make the same mistakes we did in Vietnam.