Dangerous Tension With Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/opinion/dangerous-tension-with-iran.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Subject: re: Dangerous Tension With Iran
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    There is a motley assemblage of interests--some Iranian monarchists, some Iranian democrats, some Iranian Kurds, some Israeli Hawks, arms manufacturers around the world and, seemingly, president Ahmadinejad of Iran--who are eager for a U.S. military strike against Iran.  It would not however be in America's interest.  Nothing would do more to rally Iranian support to Ahmadinejad's repressive regime than an external military threat.  The U.S. learned too late in Iraq that economic sanctioned had already worked. Iraq's nuclear weapons program was dead years before we marched in looking for WMDs. As president Obama disengages us from president Bush's disastrous wars, we can expect the arms manufacturers and the legislators whom they try to buy to drum for a new market for their wares.We need to make sure that we commit our sons' blood and our standing in the community of nations only when it serves our national interest.

Barry Haskell Levine

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