To: jeffers
Very troubling escalation if this "threat" is carried out.
16:11 Hezbollah-linked Lebanese minister: We won`t strike Israel`s nuclear plants (Haaretz)
Folks the pucker factor just went thru the roof.
Respectfully, Dog, the pucker factor here has remained at nearly constant levels throughout this crisis.
When you make a habit of deliberately and regularly confronting the worst case possible, then reality usually arrives as a bonus, much more pleasant than what you planned for.
This could go nuclear.
It won't go nuclear here, with the infinitesimally possible exception of one or two population centers.
We cannot lose, if it comes to a fight, but we can ensure that our enemies cease to exist. That is the unalterable bottom line.
the only realistic way to see the arab-israeli conflict is that it is a zero sum situation. period.