Resisting the Guns of August in Eurasia
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Francis A. Boyle: Thank you for having me on Dori and my best to your listening audience and regretfully in light of the Guns of August article it is August and last week the third US aircraft carrier task force arrived in the Persian Gulf organized around the USS Enterprise. So there are now three air craft carrier task forces in the Gulf. We have not seen that amount of Naval and aerial fire power in the Gulf since the war against Iraq in March of 2003.
So it’s an extremely dangerous situation. We have President Bush threatening to determine that the Iranian Guards are a terrorist organization. Yesterday Iran entered into a comprehensive work plan with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Today the Bush administration rejected that and said that they are continuing to move toward another round of sanctions at the Security Council. So literally I regret to say anything can happen. Studying the Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman, the allusion to the origins of the First World War I think would scare everyone. We could not rule out another incident along the lines of the so-called Tonkin Gulf incident of 1965. We had the British sailors ultimately admitting that they did stray into waters claimed by Iran and that created another incident so it’s an extremely dangerous situation. We had Vice President Cheney earlier appearing on the Air Craft Carrier Stennis in the Persian Gulf literally threatening Iran. So I really don’t know what to say. Anything is possible at this time.
