Posted on 04/25/2009 3:18:27 AM PDT by Fennie
Stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons - or we will. Benjamin Netanyahu's challenge smacks of unrealistic bravado and, worse, it appears to be a crude attempt to bully an American President into bombing Iran's nuclear installations. The consequences of a unilateral Israeli strike would be enormous if not disastrous. Mr. Obama cannot allow himself to be intimidated by Mr. Netanyahu, nor can he wink if the Israeli air force bombs Iran's nuclear facilities.
IF Iran succeeded in closing the Straits of Hormuz it would only be with the collusion and cooperation of the US President. Not saying he won't do it either. An economic oil "crisis" might fit his plans just right.
There’s already an agreement with the oil producing states (Saudi, Kuwait, et al) that oil prices and production would remain stable if/when Iran is targeted. Don’t you think these economies would enjoy removing a wildcard such as Iran (Shia bastion)?
"Iran would have every right ....."?
How quaint.
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." ..... Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, The Melian Dialogue (Book 5, Chapter 17)
Operation Opera 1981(Destroying Saddam's Nuclear Reactor)
Destroying Syria's Nuclear Reactor, 2007
It would be suicide to attack Iran without US help.
It would not be "suicide". Maybe "ineffectual without the active involvement of U.S. air power" due to the logistics involved and the hardened and dispersed nature of the Iranian target set but not "suicide".
As we can tell which side you are on and that you are rooting for the OBAMBI not allowing isreal to protect itself, you apparently dont realize the nuke stockpile in isreal is probably as much as france, they just dont brag about it and will use the force needed to destroy iran and friends if no one else helps stop the musi satan states from having nukes to use at the whim of a mullah.
The danger is that they miss.
Obama doesn't give a flying f**k about Israel. He's already sold them out. The most disasterous thing that can happen is Iran building a nuke and obliterating Israel. For those who think that Iran would not do it, they need to study up on the Messianic rantings of a madman, namely Ahmedinejad, who believes that destrying Israel would usher the arrival of the 12th Imam.
Everybody said the same thing about Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor who also was building a nuke and would not have hesitated to use it on Israel. Israel knocked it out in 1981, and the Arab countries, were cheering Israel privately while condeming them publicly. If it were not for Israel bombing of Saddam's nuclear reactor, he would have developed nukes and made ending the invasion and occupation of Kuwait impossible for coalition forces to do anything.
In caase you missed the memo, we've got a Muslim in the White House who has gone out of his way to suck up to Muslim and Arab countries while giving the finger to the only true Democracy and American ally in the Middle East.
Since Obama lacks the stones to do anything about it, just like Europe is doing, the responsibility for the safety of Israel rests solely with Israel.
As we can tell which side you are on and that you are rooting for the OBAMBI not allowing isreal to protect itself, you apparently dont realize the nuke stockpile in isreal is probably as much as france, they just dont brag about it and will use the force needed to destroy iran and friends if no one else helps stop the musi satan states from having nukes to use at the whim of a mullah.
“And exactly what would be the consequences of an Iranian strike on Israel???.....”
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Or what would be the consequences of Iran proliferating its nuclear weapons to terrorists groups who would use them against the US and Europe (i.e.: NYC, LA, London, etc.)??
It seems that this current administration is hell bent on pushing its domestic agenda while ignoring the international threats. Furthermore, they are trying to demonize past efforts to protect ourselves by prosecuting those who did protect us.
Amen to that. I hope Netanyahu shows more resolve than he did last time he had that job.
Any nation has the right to act in its own perceived national interest. Obviously, I don’t know, but I will give you odds, that shortly after Iran has an operational nuclear weapon and a means, however poor, to deliver it, they will strike at Israel. One bomb getting through would have terrible consequences.
I have NO fear but faith that GOD is on ISRAEL’s side, and will totally destroy her enemies completely!! God is in control!!!
Knowing how Israel has tried to save innocent lives, they will give the Iranian people plenty of time to escape from the future parking lot!
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!!!
Israel???? “Miss”?!?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Perhaps you don’t understand that this is a nation in danger of COMPLETE GENOCIDE.
Bibi won’t “miss”, you can make book on that.
“Iran would have every right .....”?
It would not be “suicide”. Maybe “ineffectual without the active involvement of U.S. air power” due to the logistics involved and the hardened and dispersed nature of the Iranian target set but not “suicide”.
Quite right. Right now this is political posturing, a reminder of the value of the alliance, a disagreement between equals (in the sense that the US doesn’t philosophically have client states in the way that the USSR/Russia had/has); the Obama plan however will be to deploy US troops as “peacekeepers” in Gaza and the so-called West Bank, such that Israel will withdraw to 1967 borders (give or take) and hand over temporary control to US troops.
Short of a house-to-house reduction of hostiles such as US forces did in, say, Fallujah, there’s no way for such an arrangement to work. IMHO, the ethnically undifferentiated Arabs squatting on Jewish lands should be given the opportunity to move — and not to the US as Obama is trying to do — into ample lands with water supplies and no PLO/PA/Hamas/Fatah ruining their lives.
This is a sick joke!
Europe has centuries of Jewish blood fertilizing its evil soil and Europeans would not be upset by Jews not going to Cossack swords or gas chambers peacefully?
Tell me another.
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