Iraq wasn't Poland. It was Czechoslavakia. [View All]

At Munich Hitler made the case for annexing the Sudetenland. Germany, he said, had no more territorial ambition in Europe; it merely wanted to incorporate the German-nationals of the border region into the Reich. (Is that so unreasonable, Herr Chamberlain?)

The world didn't like it, but would it go to war over the territorial integrity of Czechoslavikia? As if.

But just a few months later, German troops marched into Prague and claimed the rest of the Czech republic. Hitler's ambitions in Europe were clear then to even the stubbornly blind. There was no reasoning with this guy. He couldn't be appeased. So the line was drawn. Hitler would not receive the benefit of the doubt again, and the world began preparing for what was obviously an inevitable war.

Iraq was Bush's Czechoslavakia, and the WMD case his Sudeten Germans. As strained as the argument was, would the world stand up to the United States for Iraq, in opposition to a Crime Against the Peace? But since the case has been proven a sham, and the US is Iraq's perpetual occupying power, America's next imperial adventure will likely be met with more than just wringing of hands from the international community.

Iran will be Poland. Meaning, an action against it will be, potentially, a catastrophic trigger. Because the world knows better now than to rollover again. It knows now, there's no reasoning with this guy.

I believe a line is being drawn around Iran by powers such as its strategic trading partners and neighbours, Russia and China. Iraq stood alone, but don't be shocked if, one way or another, Iran does not.