text: is there any chance that the us goes on war against iran?   the unimaginable but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with iran.   while we were chasing phantom nuclear weapons in mesopotamia, next door iran was busy building real ones.   the unavoidable reality is that we now need urgently to steel ourselves to the ugly probability that diplomacy will not now suffice: one or way or another, unconscionable acts of war may now be unavoidable.   those who say war is unthinkable are right. military strikes, even limited, targeted and accurate ones, will have devastating consequences for the region and for the world.  if iran gets safely and unmolested to nuclear status, it will be a threshold moment in the history of the world, up there with the bolshevik revolution and the coming of hitler.   and so we must ready ourselves for what may be the unthinkable necessity.