August 20, 2007

Dear Editors of the Wall Street Journal,

“Can the U.S. Force Iran’s Hand Despite a Lack of Support?” in your August 16, 2007 edition, reports on the problem we might have convincing other nations to join us in further isolating Iran, if we were to designate its Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.  We do little trade with Iran, so the response of the major trading partners, China, Japan, Germany, France and Italy, and the court of world opinion, are key. 

What are they to think, when our armed forces occupy Iran’s next door neighbor Iraq engaged in full-scale counter insurgency warfare there?  Yes, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is a probable conduit for guns and guerilla attacks in Iraq.  But if Iran’s army was as big as ours, and fighting to subdue Canada, would the U.S. military stand idly by? War is hell, and lethal terror is its very nature.  Naming part of Iran’s military “terrorist” is not going to resolve the conflict for oil and power in this region.  It will only result in ineffective sanctions, and further loss of credibility for the politicians who designed this unjust war.

Yours truly,

Michael McCarthy PA-C

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