Patience For Iran

As the pressure between Iran and the United States increases, the question many Americans will ask is should we attack now?

According to the Council of Foreign Relations, the U.S. State Department has claimed that Iran is the world’s “most active state sponsor of terrorism.” The Council further states that Iran continues to provide funding, weapons, training, and sanctuary to numerous terrorist groups based in the Middle East and elsewhere.

The tensions between Iran and the United States has increased as Iran’s nuclear program has progressed in constructing a power plant, which Iran says is for peaceful purposes. However, the United States believes Iran’s power plant will go for the production of nuclear weapons and has accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly.

Iran is a threat to the United States and the evidence of that threat is real. However, at this point in time, now is not the time to act.

Although Iran is making nuclear progression, it is slow. According to the Washington Post, although they threaten to wipe Israel off the map, U.S. intelligence estimates that an Iranian bomb would take ten years to construct. The U.S. military is already focused on Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will give it time to take care of its priorities in those countries.

This will also give the military time to recover from the 3,831 U.S troop casualties. According to CNN reporters, the Iraq war what?has dropped from 72 percent to 32 percent for this reason and for failed attempt to find any weapons of mass destruction.
The United States continues to drag on in Iraq as it pays $12 billion monthly in 2007 and $200 million daily. This as well as the operation in Afghanistan accumulates to $800 billion dollar in war spending. These facts come from Deborah White of Iraq War results and statistics as of October 17, 2007.

Because of the above points, I believe that we should wait to attack Iran.