Posted on 02/24/2007 12:59:47 AM PST by HAL9000
Make that a Google on "A Clean Break" (not "A Clear" one!! Sorry.
"(One has to wonder why we call Israel our "strategic partner in the Mideast" when we haven't and won't use them.)"
We haven't and won't use them because the Arabs hate Israel. Having Israel carry out the strike rather than the US alone (or with a NATO country) is a bad idea in my book. There's a reason why the first Bush didn't allow Israel to retaliate when it was struck with missiles from Iraq. Otherwise, it would've fractured America's alliance with Arab states and/or sparked instability in those countries. I don't see how either of these is a good thing.
As much as I would love for this airstrke to happen, and for us to give the Israelis permission for a strike, I think the permission must also come from the Iraqi government.
That's ridiculous. The Saudis don't want the Iranians to have nuclear weapons anymore that we do.
When we look back on this decades from now, we'll see this was the strategy all along...and it's succeeding.
Surround and contain. Divide and conquer.
The day before the raid, the New York Times will have illustrated strike maps and a list of vulnerable Israeli sites.
Psychological warfare.
I never said they did. Would the Saudis rather have the U.S. or Israel bomb Iran?
If they'd rather have Israel do it, then they can give them fly-over permission.
I think we should loan Israel the Enola Gay- fully fueld, fully armed.
Perhaps Israel is making this 'request' public knowledge in order to send a clear message to Iran that they are done playing games. I imagine Mahmouid would be poopin his burka at the thought of an Israeli air campaign against him.
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Of course they don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But Saudi Arabia would be seen as illegitimate among its people if it were to be seen as sitting back while Israel attacked Iran. Saudi Arabia has to remain somewhat anti-Israeli for the regime to stay in power. And while I'm not fond of the intolerant form of Islam that is the state religion there, the alternative isn't democracy, it's jihadism.
"I never said they did. Would the Saudis rather have the U.S. or Israel bomb Iran?
If they'd rather have Israel do it, then they can give them fly-over permission."
Thank you. And King Abdullah would have to be suicidal to allow the latter to take place.
By the way, what ever happened to "Divine Strake"? It would be great if secretly, this was ready to go and is already on hundreds of warheads in the US and Israeli arsenal ! ! ! !
Is that a very small aircraft or are those really, really big patio stones?
I hope they do eliminate the Iranian's nuclear capability.
It seems that if Israel would do it, with the Pentagon's permission to fly over Iraq, that would give some room for the U.S. in that we didn't actually do the bombing, just allowed it to happen.
Uh huh. Hey dude, please pass the popcorn...
seen this?
America doesn't need anyone else to lead the charge - and we need not follow anyone.
We would be doing this for our own best interests.
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