Why a war with Iran?
Well the Military Industrial Complex needs a "boogieman" in order to get funding. Russia is getting old. It is tougher to stir up scary things about China as they are just too busy making money.
North Korea has a big army, impossible terrain, and even though they could never win, they could cause a lot of damage to countries we like lose-lose situation.
Who else can we use to instill fear??? AQ? They are fragmented and besides there is no real money in fighting non-conventional non-state actors. We need carriers, submarines, bombers, and missiles $$$$ that's where the real profit is.
Remember, we are facing Draconian cuts to the military. We desperately need a circumstance where congress can say "well, sure we intended to cut the military as a means of bringing spending down... but after xxx we (ahem) (cue straight face) 'have no choice' but to plus up military spending."
So who don't we like who is surrounded by other countries we either don't like or don't like all that much?
And it has to be a country with a culture different from ours and one where we don't have a lot of citizens (voting significant numbers) from that culture???
And just to play it safe, it really should be a country that does not have the ability to directly attack the US proper.
It should also be a country that most citizens don't know much about so they will rely on the media for their propa... uh I mean information.
So why a war with Iran?
Why not? It is custom made for our purposes.
Yeah, I am THAT cynical about our foreign policy.
