WALL STREET JOURNAL: OBAMA IS PUSHING ISRAEL TOWARD WAR

Flash Traffic ^ | 15 September 2009 | Joel Rosenberg

[ShadowAce]

War clouds over Iran are building rapidly. On Friday night during the 9/11 National Town Hall Meeting, I explained that because Washington and the Western powers are doing nothing decisive to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, there is an increasingly likelihood that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will feel the need to matters into his own hands, and soon. Iran now has enough enriched uranium (that we know about) to build at least two nuclear weapons. If the Russians deliver and install the new S-300 state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missiles in Iran then the Israelis ability to decimate Iran nuclear facilities will be dramatically diminished. These are likely the issues Netanyahu discussed in the Kremlin last Monday. So, short of divine intervention and/or a dramatic turnabout in Western resolve and action, we may very well be looking at an Israeli preemptive strike in 2010.
In light of that assessment, I would draw to your attention a sobering and must-read column this morning by a Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bret Stephens. It’s entitled, “Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War.”

Excerpts:

• “Events are fast pushing Israel toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, probably by next spring. That strike could well fail. Or it could succeed at the price of oil at $300 a barrel, a Middle East war, and American servicemen caught in between. So why is the Obama administration doing everything it can to speed the war process along?
  
• “At July’s G-8 summit in Italy, Iran was given a September deadline to start negotiations over its nuclear programs. Last week, Iran gave its answer: No. Instead, what Tehran offered was a five-page document that was the diplomatic equivalent of a giant kiss-off. It begins by lamenting the ‘ungodly ways of thinking prevailing in global relations’ and proceeds to offer comprehensive talks on a variety of subjects: democracy, human rights, disarmament, terrorism, ‘respect for the rights of nations,’ and other areas where Iran is a paragon. Conspicuously absent from the document is any mention of Iran’s nuclear program, now at the so-called breakout point, which both Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his boss Ali Khamenei insist is not up for discussion….
• “The longer the U.S. delays playing hardball with Iran, the sooner Israel is likely to strike. A report published today by the Bipartisan Policy Center, and signed by Democrat Chuck Robb, Republican Dan Coats, and retired Gen. Charles Ward, notes that by next year Iran will ‘be able to produce a weapon’s worth of highly enriched uranium . . . in less than two months.’ No less critical in determining Israel’s timetable is the anticipated delivery to Iran of Russian S-300 anti-aircraft batteries: Israel will almost certainly strike before those deliveries are made, no matter whether an Iranian bomb is two months or two years away.
• “Such a strike may well be in Israel’s best interests, though that depends entirely on whether the strike succeeds. It is certainly in America’s supreme interest that Iran not acquire a genuine nuclear capability, whether of the actual or break-out variety. That goes also for the Middle East generally, which doesn’t need the nuclear arms race an Iranian capability would inevitably provoke.
• “Then again, it is not in the U.S. interest that Israel be the instrument of Iran’s disarmament. For starters, its ability to do so is iffy: Israeli strategists are quietly putting it about that even a successful attack may have to be repeated a few years down the road as Iran reconstitutes its capacity. For another thing, Iran could respond to such a strike not only against Israel itself, but also U.S targets in Iraq and the Persian Gulf.”

[ShadowAce]

I’m convinced that Obama is pushing Israel to strike Iran because he cannot lose. If the strike fails, Israel falls. If the strike succeeds, oil goes way higher, and his agenda to destroy America is furthered.

[the invisib1e hand]

On Friday night during the 9/11 National Town Hall Meeting, I explained that because Washington and the Western powers are doing nothing decisive to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, there is an increasingly likelihood that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will feel the need to matters into his own hands, and soon.

Yeah, and you probably read it on the most influential blog ever.

[ShadowAce]

Perhaps—but Joel has some good relationships with people in the Netenyahu administration. He may have received that first hand.

[nufsed]

Bush and Obama played the mutually assured destruction strategy. The problem is we have a religious fanatic who thiks it's his job to bring about the end of the world; not exactly yhe USSR which had lost tens of millions during the last century.

Obviously Awkwardamanajob is not hindered by a need to survive. People can do a world of hurt if they don't care about their own survival, especially if they have nukes.

[tcrlaf]

“So why is the Obama administration doing everything it can to speed the war process along?”

Obama “Judge me by the people I surround myself with!”

All the answer you need to this question....

[ShadowAce]

Agreed. As I said earlier, I believe that this is part of his plan to destroy us. He doesn’t even care what happens over there.

[NMEwithin]

Barack Obama = The man responsible for World War III

[trisham]

Barack Obama = The man responsible for World War III

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As long as Israel is destroyed, the Left is fine with that.

[Army Air Corps]

Like I said during the campain, this jasper is going to get a lot of people killed.

[Army Air Corps]

campain = campaign

[ShadowAce]

..this jasper is going to get a lot of people killed.

Yeah--and most of those will be Americans.

[Polynikes]

Get ready to see $300 oil. The spike will probably be relatively short as Iran attempts to close the Hormuz straits and the USN forces it open. Just food for thought. Adjust your portfolio accordingly

[ShadowAce]

Get ready to see $300 oil.

My first thought as well. That's why zer0 wants Israel to attack. He can claim innocence, yet the price of oil will play in to his agenda of destroying our economy.

[Dark Wing]

An Israeli strike that does not suceed in stopping Iran’s nuclear program but does get the USA & Iran into a war will still be a “success” in israel’s books.

This is where Pres. Obama is being an idiot.

[ShadowAce]

...does get the USA & Iran into a war will still be a “success” in israel’s books.

No, I don't think so. Any war like that would involve Israel. I don't think they want to get into something like that. Especially if it can be viewed as being orchestrated in that direction.

[Army Air Corps]

Sadly, yes.

[TBP]

He’s going to set up Iran with more advanced weapons, tehn push Israel into a war that he hopes they’ll lose.

[ShadowAce]

He’s going to set up Iran with more advanced weapons, tehn push Israel into a war that he hopes they’ll lose.

I don't think he can get away with arming Iran directly. He'll probably negotiate it with Russia. They'll do it--either overtly or covertly--and then he'll (zer0) unleash Israel on Iran.

I don't think that plan will succeed, though. For one, Netanyahu is too smart for that, and second, zer0 is too dumb to do it.

[The Comedian]

So why is the Obama administration doing everything it can to speed the war process along?

Because it's a crypto-Muslim anti-Semitic Stalinist coup that takes it marching orders straight from the darkest ring of Hell?

Did I guess right?

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