Can we win in Afghanistan? It’s an odd question, considering that we’ve already won, by historical standards. Yet unrealistic metrics of success continue to pile up, fabricated in ignorance — often willful and even spiteful — of Afghan reality. Political partisans intent on scoring points and media figures desperate for headlines demand the impossible (and not only in Afghanistan.) Increasingly, the greatest obstacle to success in trouble spots where our troops are engaged is our own unwillingness to accept that wars never yield perfect results and rarely yield permanent change.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/05/3461903

Before this that we come to any conclusion about Iran; we need to know the back ground that why Iran who has never carried out any offensive operation against any one in the region, is a contentious issue for the west and why Iran must not be allowed to arm itself with nuclear weapons?

Well, it was early forties that in the wake of Adolph Hitler's adventurism and fanciful conceit to create a Nazis realm in Europe; he started grabbing his neighbouring countries one after another. Threat of loosing their home lands at home; this compelled the Western colonial powers in occupation of many other countries around the world, to abandon their colonial adventures and revert back home to safe guard their own well sought nests… in Europe. In order to dislodge the Nazis forces and check their onslaught, this withdrawal from foreign lands in turn resulted in freeing some 40 countries serving as western colonies and they were able to shed subjugation and take a breath of relief and freedom. From there on; although Europe and American forces were on continuous retreat but major colonial powers were able to do at least one thing; to draw new border lines before they leave. Although they did give the freedom to the subject colonies but in order to create blood barriers and rifts among the local tribes and regions, they were able to demarcate the colonies with new border lines. They installed scores of dictators, monarch and kings to police and rule the new states with intent to act as remote controlled western proxies. Thus, leaving ample chances for the colonial forces to revisit or avail a come back later, in future to act as reconciliatory.

It had just passed few years that a large scale discovery of oil especially in Middle East in early Fifties changed the entire scenario of affairs in newly freed countries. This also motivated the old colonial powers to come back and take the lucrative emerging resources in control to run their oil based economies at home. Since then there has been lot of ‘oil exploration’ carried out by the west in the areas but the local indigenous masses remained totally aloof and unconcerned, being ignorant and as un-lettered old subjugated lot trekking their nomadic lives. Ever since many moves are seen taking place by the west in order to secure a good foot hold and control as well as to avail a continuous and secured flow of extracted oil from the area. It also included the arrangements to lay the massive oil pipe lines and its transportations to suck the oil out and reach safely to the west.

The flow in of oil revenue for kings and monarchs created a natural resentment among the local unlettered masses and it tended them to stop check the exploitation and resist their re-shackling into subjugation and deceitful policies of deprivation and adversity.

Where as the previously installed kings, the monarchs and dictators were made use of to exploit the situation and establish business enterprises to secure foot holds; agents like Israel were also created to ‘spin-cum-escalate’ the war like situations in the area so that west can move in freely with the frightful forces in the name of maintenance of peace and security. In this process where the western savagery so exerted has learnt to parcel out its violence neatly, the local resistance is seen as obvious, blatant and brutal.

Iraq war lead by US is the latest episode on the line of western onslaught; the obvious retaliation of locals against the war and deprivation of their sovereignty has been termed as ‘war against terror’. The US hegemonic adventurism to keep the lands and routes of oil in their folds has brought the turmoil, chaos and anarchy in the lives of people in affected regions. Millions of innocent people have been displaced or killed and their civic amenities as well a infrastructure destroyed.

In order to avail a cake walk for the US lead forces and to exert the power of the Allies in the extended battle fields extending from the Red Sea in Middle East in the south to the High lands in the North in Afghanistan, the entire region is deprived of any defensive arsenals to put up any resistance; may it be the purchase, procurement from abroad or any local manufacturing.

In Iraq, after the consolidations of US mega bases in Green Zone and establishment of many other ‘Command and controls anchorages’ in the Gulf States; Iran the odd one out is putting up a sufficient potent resistance and thus has been declared as the ‘priority enemy target’ of the western Allies. The production of any deterring weapon like nuclear weapons or any potent arsenal by Iran is seen as threat to the plans of US hegemonic adventurism.

Iran is the hurdle in the way of victory; it must be eliminated or cut to size and be subjugated at all costs.

So it may not be long that we see the fly past of waves after waves of Allied air sorties with the state of the art, target homing Missiles carrying out their precision strikes and taking out the possible Iranian potent arsenal producing sites and other military targets!