Why Not Attack Iran?

http://warisacrime.org/iran

[N.B. Both the map and the defense-spending chart below are of dubious accuracy.  The US now has no bases in Saudi Arabia.  The estimate of Chinese defense spending is the grossly inflated figure used by DOD to justify bigger defense budgets here.  Still, Mr. Swanson makes many valid points.]

Why Not Attack Iran?

By David Swanson, DontAttackIran.org
The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone. At DontAttackIran.org we've been collecting the arguments for and against attacking Iran for years. We've campaigned against an attack, but never been able to claim a success, because decisions not to launch wars are never announced, because those pushing for wars never give up, and because those believing what their government tells them think the Pentagon never campaigns for wars but is forced into them defensively on short notice by attacks from evildoers.