Maybe we should sign a mutual-defence treaty with Israel (if we don't have one already). Kind of like NATO in that an attack on Israel by another nation would be seen as an attack on the United States by that same nation and would be dealt with accordingly.
It just might (although I seriously doubt it) cause the wackos in Iran to pause just a second before launching a nuclear missile on Israel. It would, however, give us an airtight excuse to turn them into a parking lot if they did.
Just a thought...
[Maybe we should sign a mutual-defence treaty with Israel]
It is common knowledge in the Middle East and USA that the USA would attack Iran if Iran attacked Israel. Only the type of FReeper who doesn't like Israel would assume or pretend that this isn't already a given...if only because "saving a sovereign country under attack" would be a legitimate excuse. Note that the Iraqi insurgency only gets the little currency it gets with the international left wing...because it fights supposedly in its own country for its own freedom.
Also...I don't think the Bush administration *wants* to deter Iran from precipitating its own revolution via foreign policy mistakes. We don't necessarily want the Iranian regime to suddenly get reasonable.