“What that means is that Israel will go nuclear if need be in order to defend itself.”
I think that is correct. I believe the accounts that Obama said he’d shoot down an Israeli strike — there were rumblings to that effect before. I’m also a military contractor for the USA, and poised the question, and basically got a “we follow orders” line.
The only resort left is to nuke Iran first.
I asked on another thread: If Obama were to issue such an order, would it make it’s way down the chain of command?
It would be sad if it came to that, but I can't say I'd blame Israel if they resorted to that measure. I simply can't believe that less than one hundred years from the Jewish holocaust people have forgotten the lesson that one NEVER capitulates to evil.
In Moab on a mountain once,
I took my stave in hand,
And gazed out wistfully upon
The hoped-for promised land.
Then bade me Death my eyes to close,
And drew me far away,
Behind a rampant stallion,
In heaven’s formless dray.
When here I stopped, in bonds of flesh,
I bound myself to earth,
Again (who have with Pharaoh walked)
To know the dread of birth.
And have I come thus, far in time,
My bootless rod in hand,
To sigh upon a mountain-top,
For you, my Promised Land?