Rumors have been floating around, real or imagined depending on your POV, but the rumor is that in late spring or early summer of 2006 u.s. and israel will start a war on Iran. What is you all's opinion of this? I was reading somewhere, that the former abassador to Iraq, Paul Bremer said he told Rumsfeld before the iraq war that they needed 500,000 troops in iraq. Anyone can tell you, their are not that many troops around. This means Paul bremer suggested reinstating the draft. My question is, is it feasible that a new draft will be started, and if so, what will the effect be? Will it have the effect it had on people in the 1960's? Will kids start to drop out of society, school, and jobs and live in some place, similar to Haight ashbury and berkeley? Will the draft cause the antiwar movement to be more agressive and cause the protests to become more powerful and important? Will groups like the Weathermen spring up, in different forms? Is the draft going to happen this summer? because as of right now, we barely have enough troops in iraq, how the hell are they going to pull off a war in iran? Its coming y'all!
don't get your acid tabs ready just yet... i highly doubt we'd ever attack iran. The problems of attacking and controlling a country that large are mind boggling. The way the US people have turned against iraq, i think the chances of a draft/invasion of iran would go over very, very poorly.
There is no plan to attack Iran. Iran is creating the crisis itself by refusing to abide by the terms of the nuclear non proliferation treaty of which it is a signatory. If Iran agrees to stop all atomic research then the crisis will be over. But stubbornly Iran is continuing to persue atomic research.
Iran's research in nuclear technology isn't a violation of NPT. The international community would need to show evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons or selling off enriched uranium for destructive purposes. It's ironic that the nuclear technology that Iran now has was put into place by Europe and the U.S. back in the 70s. But back then, the political relations between the U.S. and Iran were friendly. .
It is dual use technology. Also Iran in one of worlds warmest regions and with vast quantities of oil is hardly facing an energy crisis in which it needs to turn to nuclear energy. So there is no reason at all for Iran to start nuclear research. If anything Iran should be turning to solar power research which many Middle Eastern countries have done.
Then why did the U.S. start up all of those projects for nuclear reactors and other nuclear technology in Iran in the 70s? Iran's population and energy needs are much larger today than in the 70s. .
all those? Sharif University, Tehran. "Most" were funded and or designed by China,Russia, Germany. oh, and even lil ol' Argentina.
One reason Iran may have for choosing Nuclear power is that it is environmentally friendly in that it produces very little waste and has no effects on the atmosphere. (unless it blows up of course in which case then it wouldn't be). Unfortunately the waste that is produced lasts 1000s of years but hey-ho. I suspect Iran isn't thinking about the environment though. There will be years of UN sanctions before anything happens there though. I think the problem with middle eastern countries is that the people have been in the sun too long and their minds have gone crazy.
No, not enough lead time. If there is a draft (no, please no slave armies for the US), it will be different than the last draft. "Don't ask, don't tell" combined with a vastly greater social acceptability of homosexuality will make avoiding the draft much easier.
Russia's president Vladamir Putin is trying to broker a peace deal, by offering to allow Iran to carry out its nuclear research in Russia where it can be monitered to prevent it being used to produce nuclear weapons.
i wouldnt doubt the war on iran, but no theres not gonna be another draft. And if there ever was, yea there would be lots of protests and we'd stop it, but no it wouldnt be the 60's all over again, were differnt people living in a differnt time it's never gonna happen exactly the same again u should know that.
The anti-war protesters of the 1960s were the most misguided people ever. Because when Ho Chi Min and his Vietcong facsists conqured and overthrew the democratic government of South Vietnam they carried out a reign of terror imprisoning hundreds of thousands in slave labour camps, named re-education camps and forced one million opponants of their regime to flee. (remember the Vietnamese boat people?). I went to school with two of these Vietnamese refugees and the stories they told me of how the Vietcong terrorised their country horrified me. We should have won the Vietnam War and could easily have done it had we invaded North Vietnam and destroyed Ho Chi Min and his gang of Viet Cong fascist terrorists. The Vietnam War was not a mistake. The mistake was the refusal by the US government of the time to invade North Vietnam. The war would have been over within weeks had they done that.
