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National Security Advisor John Bolton is up to it again.
Tensions with Iran are already at an high level after the United States pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. However, if Bolton has anything to say about the United States' policy towards the Middle Eastern country, the two nations would be as close to war since the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Bolton, who was in the State Department for the Iraq War, is running the George W. Bush playbook that led to that disastrous conflict. The NSA leader's tactics with Iran has been marked by falsely tying Iran to al-Qaeda, erroneously accusing the country pursuing nuclear weapons, and recently threatening "unrelenting force" on the nuclear power.
If a country wanted to go to war, this is the perfect way to do it.
War, is in fact emulating the George W. Bush playbook that led to that disastrous conflict. His Iran strategy has been marked by inaccurately tying Iran to al-Qaeda, baselessly stating that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, and politicizing intelligence assessments on Iran. Bolton’s recent threat of “unrelenting force” against Iran was also based on vague intelligence regarding an alleged Iranian plot, raising the prospects of a Gulf of Tonkin-like false flag that can set of a catastrophic, region-wide conflict.
The idea of President Trump getting aggressive in that volatile region isn't necessarily a crazy one, if his government shifts its focus a few hundred miles southeast. There is a government who has been funding Islamic Terror Organizations and killing US residents.
History says that a war in this region will be cost the United States money and lives. Hopefully President Trump will listen.
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