Inconceivable?

Is war with Iran as unlikely as Jack Straw has said? Dan Plesch, foreign affairs analyst and author of the Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace, argues on the site today that it is not so far-fetched. The conventional wisdom is that for both military and political reasons it would be impossible for Israel and the UK/US to attack, and that in any event, after the politically damaging Iraq war, neither Tony Blair nor George Bush would be able to gather political support for another attack. So why the sabre-rattling in Washington and London? Plesch says there is real cause for alarm as the neocons ratchet up the pressure ...