Obama, in time to regret attacking Iran 

By Miguel José Maury Guerrero

In all of world history, many mistakes are repeated over and over again and mankind seems not to learn from its ancestors.

Then, it emerges the regrets of men or those who make such mistakes. The less honest prefer to silence them and sleep on it. Others dare to make them public.

This seems to be the case of Baroness Eliza Manninham-Buller, former head of MI5, intelligence service in the UK.

This lady, who headed the British security agency from 2002 to 2007, i.e., in Tony Blair’s last years in the government, told a parliamentary committee in her country that Britain's participation in the Iraq invasion was a mistake which, without doubt, only served to increase substantially the risk of attacks against British targets.

"We gave Bin Laden his jihad. The war emphasized the extreme view that the West was trying to destroy Islam," said Lady Manningham-Buller before the Chilcot Commission, which investigates the role of Blair's Labour government before the invasion of Iraq, recently reported AP and other news agencies.
 
This British lady's story is quite similar to that of Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense United States during the administrations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

This former executive of major companies became head of U.S. military power and was the architect of the "prefabricated" Tonkin Gulf incident, which served as a pretext to unleash the U.S. war against Vietnam.

He also became the despicable presidential adviser in the stepping-up of that war and the criminal bombing against North Vietnam.
  
He was one of the dark minds behind President Kennedy in 1962 during the so-called Missile Crisis in October. It put the world on the verge of nuclear holocaust and Cuba under the threat of disappearing due to an attack of this kind, much worse Hiroshima in 1945.

Many years later, septuagenarian and away from the always numerous conflicts of his country, McNamara called the U.S. war against the Southeast Asian nation as an error which he said he was sorry. He even wrote his memoirs.
 
On the occasion of the academic conference on the experiences of the October Crisis in Havana in October 2002, McNamara believed that it was caused by errors in the Kennedy’s administration.
 
"If I had been part of the Cuban government in 1962, I would have thought that America was preparing to attack and I had prepared for defense, as Cubans did," McNamara said to those present at that conference and Commander in Chief was among the participants. 

Evidence shows that time and facts make protagonists to recognize mistakes with a mature view.
  
It is very unfortunate that leaders called on to play leading role in the onset or avoidance of a war do not think enough before it occurs.
  
It is unfortunate that the regrets, in the case of wars, do not come in advance but only after the occurrence of war and when much blood has been shed.

Faced with possible nuclear conflict with Iran, the leaders of the United States and Israel are only threatening and preparing for war.
  
The Commander in Chief Fidel Castro has been the first to warn the Cubans and the world to the dangers such a colossal error.
  
As it has happened before and with his unique ability, Fidel has visited the future and has returned to warn us about the consequences of the confrontation between Washington, in association with Tel Aviv against Tehran.

Perhaps, the story may be repeated and President Barack Obama and Israel Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would recognize the mistake when time passes by.    
  
Obama has still time to regret and it will be the smartest way. He should do it before missiles hit ships, U.S. military bases, and Tehran, and Tel Aviv.
  
If war comes to happen, Obama’s good sense and maturity will be too late.
  
By that time, the family rivers of tears of dead Iranians, Americans and Israelis must not be dried completely because it does not happen easily. The remains dust will only be in the graves.

Cubasi Translation Staff