Posted on 04/03/2009 2:36:52 PM PDT by pissant
Richard Beeston, of the London Times, is old enough to remember what happened back in 1981, when Israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor. First, an Israeli went around to all the allied countries, warning that somebody had better do something soon. Nobody did. So the Israelis did it by themselves.
Beeston retells that story in the process of warning us that the Israelis have been doing the same thing of late, this time with regard to the Iranian nuclear project. He thinks that the new Israeli government has at least three men who are experienced in dangerous operations. He notes that Israel just attacked an Iranian convoy in Sudan that was headed for Gaza, and the Israeli planes had to fly farther than is required to attack the nuclear facility in Natanz. He concludes by saying that Israel won't attack without at least "tacit American approval," but warns that time is running out.
I can add another piece to his jigsaw puzzle. At the time of the attack on the Iraqi facility, I was Special Adviser to the Secretary of State (the same title that Dennis Ross holds today), and it was quite clear that nobody in the U.S. Government knew that attack was coming. Menachem Begin didn't ask for permission, and while there were some top Americans who were irked that they hadn't received advance warning, I didn't hear anybody say that the Israelis needed our approval, tacit or explicit.
If the Israelis think that Iran is likely to nuke them, I can't imagine why they would feel constrained by American wishes. Good relations aren't a suicide pact, after all. I doubt that the Israelis will ask any such question, in keeping with the old adage, don't ask the question if you don't want to hear the answer.
It's clear that the "Western world" has no intention of doing anything serious about Iran. I rather suspect that many European countries would be pleased if Israel managed to do effective damage to Iran's nuclear program, and I'm quite sure that many Arab countries would privately cheer the event. I really don't know what the president and his various czars would think, although they would undoubtedly join in the chorus of denunciation.
But none of that really matters if you're Israel, and you are convinced that Iran is very close to removing you from the map.
The Israelis should finish this “business” with the whacked out mullahs and their little lemur..
I guess I kind of feel like we should just remain mute and know that they will do it.
Speculation foments.
This prez. is bowing to the arabs. He won’t do a thing and then will gather condemnation for Israel if she does!
IF you’re gonna do it Israel...do it well because if you go lightly you will be condemned as harshly as if you hit them with all you’ve got!!! IT WON’T MATTER!!
BS.
The world can’t maintain this level of turmoil and instability for very much longer without a major incident.
And they don't need it now either.
It will happen when everyone least expects it.
As long as there is talk about it, nothing will happen. When the talk stops,,,,,,,,,,,,,checkmate.
Maybe when Zero is in Turkey? Yeah, I like that!
This prez bowed to the king of that filthy kingdom in the Arabian peninsula. The gesture was unmistakeable. I think Obama was letting his Islam show just a bit.
Meanwhile, Israeli jet crews are preparing to do what must be done to insure that even cowardly Western liberals go on enjoying the right to live free.
There, that should satisfy them.
Pray for the peace of Jeruselum...that true peace will mean no more Arab nations.
As goes Jeruselum so goes the world, it is the heart of the world.
If Israel attacks w/o US approval the Obama administration will dime the Israeli attacks out to the Iranians.
Hey, count me in too.
The world can’t maintain this level of turmoil and instability for very much longer without a major incident
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So true...what will N.Korea do in the next few days...they are fueled for launch and what will our turn coat prez. do...send an i-pod? Alot on the table right now.
Why do you say BS?
Please don’t ask for tacit US approval:
Neighborhood Bully
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man,
His enemies say he’s on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive.
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin,
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He’s always on trial for just being born.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
‘Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
Too bad we can’t unleash the Israelites on North Korea!
take Iran out back & beat the living daylights out of them
God bless you Israel.
And give ‘em HELL!
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So true...what will N.Korea do in the next few days...they are fueled for launch and what will our turn coat prez. do...send an i-pod?
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We should be concerned with our troops in South Korea. This SOB is not to be trusted.
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