Too many keep hoping Israel will do the dirty work. Israel takes the risk, and then takes the world’s condemnation for doing what the world dared not do, but hoped that Israel would do.
But dismantling Iran’s nuclear program is not something Israel can do. There are too many sites, too well fortified. A handful of jets, flying over enemy airspace, beyond their fuel range, aren’t going to be able to sustain that kind of campaign.
We are the ones with the air force sized for such a job, with a ring of bases on all sides of Iran. We are the ones with the navy capable of shutting down Iran’s oil lanes and shutting off her gasoline imports. If we don’t do it, it won’t happen.
And we aren’t going to do it until Iran over-steps and provokes a confrontation. Then its game on.
War is coming, like it or not. Iran will sooner or later force us to deal with them. The only question is, will we be allowed to avoid war until after they have deployed their nuclear weapons, until after perhaps they have detonated one of their nuclear weapons, or will they make a mistake and force us to deal with them before they have become a nuclear state.
Granted, Israel probably wouldn’t be wise to launch a first strike on Iran under present circumstances, but this almost sounds like suggesting Israel shouldn’t even think of retaliating if Iran strikes it (and do what, hope the US steps in, which it might or might not?) I find that suggestion morally implausible. Maybe I misunderstand.
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“Israel must not be the aggressor but defender. Then it must retaliate as it will have no other choice but to respond.”
The most important statement from the author; and one that Israel should keep to, in spite of the initial suffering that will mean.