Yeah, except he already has. Also previous presidents have mistreated Israel. Bush 43 failed repeatedly to undertake joint action against Iran. Clintoon financed the "make Arafat a billionaire" program. Bush 41 sold the "ignore Iraqi SCUDS while I kiss Bedouin butt" program, and even Reagan had the Iran "kill anyone you want, I can't do squat because you released the Embassy Hostages" policy.
Israel has seen this for years, and it gets progressively worse. Why would they think we would improve without being threatened?
Russia's Georgia operation was simply the reversal of US policy in Eastern Europe by order of Vladimir Putin. Zer0 promptly gave up the anti ballistic missile deployment for EE when THREATNED. Seems to me Israel should just tell Zer0 what he's gonna do, everybody else does.
If push comes to shove... Israel will unilaterally attack Iran.
I certainly hope so, but why beat down settlers in the meantime? Just because Zer0 asks? He's going to keep his record as a total fail on interfering with America's enemies, and if Israel WILL whack Iran and Zer0 interferes, the price of interference is the destruction of the oil fields and port in addition to the nuke bunkers, which will severely affect the US and European economies at the minimum.
Israel holds a lot of cards, if Zer0 call their bluff, he would find it wasn't.
Navy Patriot, that was truly the most well thought out post I have seen on here, and it is exactly correct. My opinion on Iran is far from the rest of the Right Wing’s... I feel like Obama will be forced to help Israel with Iran because in the face of his failures in all other spheres, the most imperative area for him is the military. If he destroys the economy (he has), ruins foreign policy, messes up health care, Copenhagen, etc THEN he has no choice but to be reluctantly forced into doing what has to be done with Iran. For him to either do nothing or just let Israel attack means the USA is no longer the most powerful nation in the world, and if Israel does it alone (they may not have enough planes, Obama would be trying to throw them to the wolves), it will kill the USA’s credibility EVEN MORE and Obummer will hit even lower numbers. Just my two cents
J