Yah. And someday they'll name a naval vessel after him. How about we make it a garbage scow and base it here? (Apologies to FReepers there.)
Posted on 03/04/2009 3:57:59 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON - Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday.
The report also says Israel's time frame for action is growing shorter, not only because of Iranian advances, but because Teheran might soon acquire upgraded air defenses and disperse its nuclear program to additional locations.
The report, "Preventing a Cascade of Instability," was put out by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). It also argues that international sanctions against Iran need to be intensified urgently for the engagement the Obama administration is planning with Teheran to be effective.
An early draft of the report was endorsed by Dennis Ross before he withdrew upon joining the Obama administration, in which he is serving as a special representative dealing with various countries in the region, including Iran. Senator Evan Bayh of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Congressman Gary Ackerman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, were among the signatories.
The bipartisan group also recommended increasing security guarantees and the supply of missile defenses and other protective measures to allies in the Middle East, both to reassure them of America's commitment to them and to dampen the perceived effectiveness, and hence appeal, of nuclear weapons for Iran.
But the report, several of whose authors met with high-level Israeli officials to assess their perspective, notes that Israel is not interested in becoming part of an American nuclear umbrella, even as Gulf countries want more assurances on that front.
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All this talking about it makes it worse.
Begin didn’t talk sanctions or announce that he might bomb Iraq’s nuclear reactor. He just did it.
Agree completely. Even Olmert just sent the planes into Syria and bombed that nuke plant to dust. Nobody got an invitation. Just happened.
Nancy you ignorant slut: if any of those "strategies" existed, people far smarter than you would have evolved them long ago.
Time to get off the fence on this issue.
Horse manure. I’m tired of this talk talk talk about any country with the moxie to kick Iran’s ass.
Memo to Israel: “Let’s Roll”.
Nike has a slogan for these kinds of situations.
At least someone has the stones...Obama's going to "Carterize" our military...slash the budget, leave ships, planes, and tanks idle due to lack of spare parts (ah, the good ol' days, eh Barry?)
"It's quite serious in acting on its own about a nuclear-armed Iran," former US ambassador to the United Nations Nancy Soderberg, one of the task force members who traveled to the region to research the report, said at a WINEP event held Wednesday on the report's release.
Can anyone blame them? There are some who feel that we should remove ourselves from the Middle East, but it simply can't be done.
Israel IS NOT POSTURING. If Obama was covering my back, I would be feeling awfully lonely over there. I would act in self defense unilaterally, especially when surrounded by authoritarian governments who want them all dead.. Israel means business, and they are shouting that something had better be done; and people had better listen.
Let's face it, the whole world knows Obama is an inexperienced leader whose only diploma is that from a corrupt Chicago Democrat machine.
“and they really mean it, this time!”
Yah. And someday they'll name a naval vessel after him. How about we make it a garbage scow and base it here? (Apologies to FReepers there.)
i sure hope they aren't waiting an a greenlight from us... it's weapons free now as far as i'm concerned
Apparently Israel didn’t get the message - Rush Limbaugh is the biggest threat to the globe!!!!
Go for it, Bibi! I’m sorry the US didn’t back you and ashamed, but my prayers with with Israel.
iF obambi gave almost a billion dollars to the Terrs in Gaza and the West Bank after a little bombing from Israel.
Just think the megaCASHbailout obambi will give the dushman Iranians after Israel lays a few dozen nukes on their assses.
Well, Mossad claimed Iran could have nukes by February. A UN nuclear inspecter said by March. Cut the talk, Israel, and just bomb Natanz and Bushehr already.
‘Israel seriously considering military action against Iran’
stop considering and DO IT
Nice. The mouse-over is good for those that don’t get the graphic immediately :)
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