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Israel's political leaders pushed to attack Iran at least three times in the past few years but had to back down on the advice of the military and due to concerns about its ally the United States, former defense minister Ehud Barak said."
In interviews to his biographers aired late on Friday by Israel's Channel Two, Barak said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had wanted military operations against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
In 2010, the Israeli leadership wanted an attack but the military said it did not have "operational capability,"
If Iran builds the bomb, and, the evidence says they are very interested in doing so, Israel will come to regret not doing something about it when they could have.
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I think an overwhelming majority of people wish Israel had done it at some point in the past, because we know it's growing worse. I don't think very many people honestly think this will turn out OK in the end. In fact, I would guess that most of us expect a nuclear disaster from it, and the Canaries are asking "Why us? Why does it always have to be us?"
The answer is same as it was in the coal mine.
The future is unknowable. It's possible that the Iranian government will someday collapse of its own mismanagement and incompetence. It's possible than an even crazier group of mullahs will assume power and that they will initiate a nuclear war. The future is so unknowable that who can even calculate the probabilities........I was surprised when the Soviet Union collapsed. The Cold War had a happy ending. Things don't always happen for the worst in this, the worst of all possible worlds........If the first eventuality happens, the peaceniks will celebrate their superior wisdom and prescience. If the second occurs, the peaceniks will also celebrate their superior wisdom and prescience. The only thing that a student of history can predict with absolute certainty is that the left is never wrong.
I'm sure Little Zero is proud to know that.
I'd say something here, but it would get me a visit from the Secret Service.
William said...
The future is unknowable. It's possible that the Iranian government will someday collapse of its own mismanagement and incompetence.
In WWII, there was a plan called Rankin, for just such a happenstance.
It didn't stop the Normandy landings, the Italian campaign, the strategic bombing offensive, or the Red Army from moving forward.
Nice legacy, jackwagon.
Spielberg and the rest of the legacy (sic) media and political establishment is not going to be able to edit around this. This disaster will all be on Obama and Co.
Israel is waiting for Hussein to be out of office. If they launch before January 2017 they know full well what he's capable of to protect his natural ally in Teheran. Does Israel have the luxury to wait till Hussein is gone? I don't think so, but that's how much they fear, rightly, an American counterattack if they launch against Teheran with the Muzzie-In-Chief in office.
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