Reply #13: Correct, except it will be our attack on Iran that increases terrorist attacks [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

And then the draft will be justified by the fact that we really will be in a state of war with a much broader set of adversaries able to tap into much greater resourses than Al Quada now has. The U.S. can withdraw our troops from Iraq to tamp down some of the anger against us, but we won't be able to withdraw the bombs we drop on Iran, the damage, in more than one way, will already be done, the dynamic of war will be launched. We won't be able to organize an anti-war movement to bring our troops home because once the U.S. comes under sustained retaliatory attacks the movement will be in the oppostite direction, to send our troops in, just like with Afghanistan.

There will at that point be an actual threat to America, one that our own actions triggered off, but real none the less. That is how the draft will be justified. I have very strong suspicions that some of the neocon supporters of "limited tactical air strikes on Iran's nuclear facillities" actually know exactly the next steps that would trigger off, and they are planning on it. They believe war in the middle east, either over Oil or for Religious prophesy, is inevitable and think future Administrations may not have the resolve needed to bring it on while the U.S. is still the world's only super power.

I wrote an extensive Diary on this subject at Daily Kos. Here is the link:

“If we want a war with a billion Muslims we can probably have one.” - Wes Clark
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/23/133937/363