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To: myknowledge
'Strike on Iran would not help Israel'

Depends on the size of the strike. Sadly, it also depends on the US position, currently led by BHO.

5 posted on 02/04/2010 10:23:18 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: umgud

He wants to use all uncertainties as reasons for Israel not acting -— but of course as a Euro-socialist he really isn’t interested in Israel’s best interests and long-term security. For him (in his view) he risks absolutely nothing with a nuclear-capable Iran. He states that Iran might stop short of actual nuclear weapons creation, which sounds like an absurd liberal fantasy to people with a grounding in reality.

One thing I do agree with is that any Israeli strikes have to be successful enough to really set back the Iranian nuclear program a very long time — it really doesn’t help matters to introduce only a delay of a year or two. There is the prospect of motivating the Iranian regime pour even more resources into a renewed nuclear program with more remote and deep buried facilities, I would guess. Can they really be stopped in the longer run of more than a few years? The USA could do it but hard to imagine anything happening under Obambi....

I simply don’t know what the prospects are for airstrikes that could really disable this program for quite a few years. But if Israeli officials have enough grounds to believe that’s a likely outcome, and given that nothing else is going to stop the Mullahs from acquiring nukes, then Israel will need to go for it.


11 posted on 02/04/2010 11:16:45 PM PST by Enchante (Obamanation: are you really concerned about "foreign" campaign donations? Let's see all of yours!!)
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