Posted on 10/09/2008 1:47:03 PM PDT by RogerFGay
Near the conclusion of Tuesday night’s second presidential “town-hall” style debate, a questioner from the audience asked each candidate what he would do if Iran attacked Israel. Both candidates gave somewhat vague replies, focusing on the traditionally close relationship between the United States and Israel. In any event, if Iran ever attacks Israel, other than through its Lebanon-based surrogate Hezbollah, it will be with nuclear-tipped missiles, in which case Israel will be obliterated before the United States can respond.
The more pertinent question for the candidates is, “What will you do if and when Israel carries out a preemptive attack on Iranian nuclear facilities?” At that point both deterrence and appeasement will have failed. ... cont.
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Obama = Surrender / collaborate
McCain = Attack!!
It would be too late for us to do anything. All hell will break loose.
ping
Getter Done!
http://www.amazon.com/Third-World-War-August-1985/dp/0722141858/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223587517&sr=1-1
Written over twenty years ago, this British author posited it beginning in the Straits of Hormuz and initiated by Iran.
If I’m not mistaken, “Threads”, a positively horrific film speculation on nuclear war, also had it beginning though conflict with Iran.
These days are frightening. Hard to sleep at night.
At this point it is difficult to imagine Israel really doing anything to actually defend itself. They finally dumped Olmert over there but all the government is doing now is stumbling in place.It seems the only way that Israel would defend itself against Iran is if the IDF is capable of acting independently but there would be a limit on what it could accomplish that way because the US would probably cut it off from resupply and the government would oppose it.
The IDF will act to defend Israel regardless of who the PM is. And if Iran launches a nuclear attack on Israel the IDF will respond in kind regardless of what the PM has to say about it.
I hope so.
btt
The military of 2008 Iran, like 1936 Germany, is a nascent threat but hardly fully formed. Germany could in fact have been repelled from the Rhineland if France had taken decisive action. Iran could be suppressed militarily if te US chose to take decisive action.
Remember we are talking pre-nuclear Iran here. The "end of the world as we know it" would not be at stake.
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