I suppose a nuclear strike against "the West" killing hundreds of thousands or a million, more or less, of us would be enough "provication" to cause our leaders to finally wage a devistating war on radical islam.
I for one, however, am not going to hold my breath.
I would have thought that 3000 dead in one attack would have done the trick and this problem would have been totally solved by now.
So, it is now down to a waiting game to find out just how many Americans and Isralies must be vaproized before the U.S. does something to solve the problem.
We can only hope and pray that when the bomb goes off, it is not in our neighborhood.
Perhaps.
The first attempted strike. Most likely any missile the Iranians would fire at Israel would be intercepted. The same is true of any bomb they might try to smuggle in to either Israel or the US. The things, especially the rather crude first or even second generation devices the Iranians could build, have a signature that is about as stealthy as the rising sun on a clear morning.
No.
Iran doesn't now have a nuclear weapon.
The current U.S. policy is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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We had best also hope and pray that a left wing Democrat administration is not in power when and if the bomb goes off.
I'm not at all convinced that such a C in C would take the step of a nuclear reply to a nuclear attack unless the bomb strikes on US soil and millions of American die. Most prominent Democrats don't seem to have any commitment at all to the the survival of Israel, in fact some things I read from the far left show a bitter hatred for Israel that rivals their hatred for Bush and conservatives. Hard to believe, but many of those deluded fools would be in sympathy with the mad mullahs of Iran against both Israel and our own armed forces in an armed conflict. In fact, they take that position now regarding our involvement in Iraq.
A Democratic administration might not sacrifice Israel to save us from nuclear retaliation, in fact it probably wouldn't unless the radical left gains more strength and influence than it has now. But the Islamic militants may believe it would, and the result would be the same as far as American and Israeli casualty figures.
I used to hold strongly to this perspective as well...that before any action could be taken, to satisfy our extreme political pacifism in the west, that first Iran must take get in the first strike...
Now, I don't even think that would be enough...as long as they covered their tracks (using proxies or terrorists) well enough to cause doubt sufficient to survive an hour of CSI Las Vegas, well, I'm thinking that would probably be enough to get the Left in the West to run to their defense. Which is enough to keep our politics so toxic that action in defense of the nation will be an impeachable offense.
After all we deserve it anyway because we created Haliburton.