Posted on 10/10/2008 7:43:18 AM PDT by Victory111
Near the conclusion of Tuesday night’s second presidential “town-hall” style debate, a questioner from the audience asked each candidate what he would do if Iran attacked Israel. Both candidates gave somewhat vague replies, focusing on the traditionally close relationship between the United States and Israel. In any event, if Iran ever attacks Israel, other than through its Lebanon-based surrogate Hezbollah, it will be with nuclear-tipped missiles, in which case Israel will be obliterated before the United States can respond.
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Yet 0bama will receive a large percentage of the Jewish vote. Talk about sowing the seeds of your own destruction!
That's a big maybe. I feel like today's Israelis don't have the same self-preservation instinct their parents had.
We’ll see. Remember that Israel conducted a bombing mission in the early ‘80s, if I recall correctly, to destroy Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facilities in Iraq. But if times have changed, maybe today’s Israel wouldn’t do something similar against Iran.
On the other hand, would today’s Iran attack Israel if Israel did a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities? I wonder what the reaction would be. I thought Iran had a strong military, apart from their nuclear developments. Maybe I’m wrong, but with somebody like Ahmadineajead(sp?) in charge, he might go full speed ahead and attack Israel, if Israel bombed Iran. Just a thought. It’s such an unstable part of the world as it is.
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