Ex-Defense Chief (Robert Gates) Says Hit On Iran Would Be Disastrous

[Purveyor]

By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 4, 2012

NORFOLK

Painting a picture of internal political dysfunction in a dangerous world, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Wednesday night that a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran would have disastrous consequences.

Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran's nuclear capability, he said, and "such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable. They would just bury the program deeper and make it more covert."

Iran could respond by disrupting world oil traffic and launching a wave of terrorism across the region, Gates said.

"The results of an American or Israeli military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world."

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1. Guess that makes Gates a hippy towel-head hugger. Why does he hate America? ;-)

Thank G-d for the sanity left in high places.

[UTUSN]

2. R#3 & K n/t

[ellisonz]

3. Exactly, all the tough talk is stupid. The only way forward is diplomacy and containment. n/t

[formercia]

4. "...haunting us for generations in that part of the world."

That's the whole idea, when a Country or Countries have Economies based in large part on the Military-Industrial-Complex.

[Hydra]

5. And ironically we've been reminded that they HAVE no nuclear weapons program

If we don't want them enriching uranium, we ought to try shutting down our own nuclear power program. And if we don't like their gov't(I don't), we should have thought about that when we put the Shah in charge.

Cause --> effect, cause --> effect. Basic science, but I know we don't use that model anymore- we just make s*** up.

[Jennicut]

6. Damn that ultra leftist Robert Gates....

Seriously, there are some middle of the roaders that still have brains left.