i.e. Are you crazy? On the matter, Uri Avnery, the grand old man of the Israeli left, has an on target column on the latest Israeli bluster about bombing Iran. Avnery correctly dismisses the notion out of hand. Says it won’t happen. I agree and have been saying so for years, most recently in this blog post from last April. Pure, total folly.
But if the Israelis were to go postal and try such an attack, what should the US do? There are only two options: order the Israelis to turn the bombers around before they reach their targets or, in the event of Israeli disobedience, shoot them out of the air. That’s it. Not that it matters one way or the other but if Obama were to do neither—or worse, get the US in on the act—, I don’t think I’d be able to vote for him next November, regardless of the opponent.
UPDATE: Aaron David Miller has a piece on the Foreign Policy web site on the “five reasons that Israel and the United States might want to think long and hard about preemptively striking Iran’s nuclear facilities.” He’s right, of course, though understates his case IMO.
Hi,
War is looming. War is ineluctable. War on and on… War for always.
It depends on how Obama-Nobel Peace Prize- and the American military-industrial complex will manage to coax the American poeple’s wits in order to legitimate a bombing attack along with Israel to stop the Iranian military nuclear program, if it actually exists.
Perilous endeed. Iranian poeple crave sovereignty. How come Iran wouldn’t have the right to reach out for the ultimate stage of sovereignty ?
Perilous because Iran isn’t like Irak or libya,somewhat easy targets. Attacking Iran is like stirring up a hornet’s nest. Worse, it’ll unleash a storm of hatred and light as hot as in hell a blaze that will take more than decades to fizzle out.
It is too a pessimistic point of view, isn’t it ? So James Branch Cabell wrote :
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” I kind of feel the same way.