CREATING AN INCIDENT….Are we hoping to provoke Iran into some kind of overt military action that we can use as an excuse to go after them? Maybe, maybe not. But we certainly considered doing it in Iraq, so it’s hardly out of the question. Jonathan Schwarz runs through the history lesson.

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