Was the US-Israeli Attack on Iran Necessary?

The primary reason given for the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran was that Iran would not give up its nuclear program, which it claimed was for peaceful purposes only. The US and Israel viewed this claim as merely a cover story for producing a nuclear weapon to be used as a first strike on Israel and perhaps the US itself. I posit that, even if we accept the US-Israeli position as true, there was no reason to attack Iran anyway.

Remembering the Costs of War

April marks the time when the guns of war began to fall silent across the South in 1865, after four years of war. On April 9, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. General Nathan Bedford Forrest stood down his cavalry on May 9. By June 23, General Stand Watie had surrendered the last of the Confederate soldiers still fighting, the First Indian Brigade which included his own Cherokee Braves.