What Clapper didn't specify is that Tehran is enriching uranium to a paltry 3.5%; a nuclear bomb needs 95% -- and that would be immediately detected by the International Atomic Energy Agency. If that happens -- and that's a major if -- there's no way regime change from the outside may be imposed. Thus, bye bye to the Big Prize in oil and gas coveted by anyone from realist Dr Zbig Brzezinski to former Darth Vader, Dick Cheney.
So it's Ouroboros all over again -- the serpent biting its own tail. We need to bomb to get regime change, so that oily dancer will dance on our wealthy lap.
The problem is neither the Obama administration nor key Pentagon generals are convinced this is a good deal.
And Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Congress last Thursday, "Iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict." No wonder; Dempsey himself admitted that the leadership in Tehran -- contrary to relentless neo-con media spin -- "is a rational actor."
Does this all matter for the neo-cons and their legion of media shills? Not really. Until they find a sucker to fight a war for them -- as in a Republican US president -- real cowards will keep going to Tehran, all day and all of the night, in their wettest of wet dreams.
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