Given that the US military will be picking up the pieces and paying in blood and treasure for any attack, I think they damn well should inform us.
I think what he may be saying is that we won’t take Iran out with this administration in office; Iran needs to be taken out, and this administration would likely warn them to torpedo the mission rather than help it happen.
Yeah, they should just lie down and die. Is that what you mean?
“Given that the US military will be picking up the pieces and paying in blood and treasure for any attack, I think they damn well should inform us.”
I think it’s unlikely that Israel will overtly attack Iran while Obama is in office. Obama has shown every indication that he’d punish Israel and probably help, at least covertly, Iran. I think that Israel has focused all its energies on collapsing the Iranian regime from within. They will continue in that direction until the moment before they feel they have no other option than to strike at an actual nuclear weapon that is ready on the launch pad.
Also, I believe that Iran supplies 20% of the world’s oil. Any attack would necessarily stop that supply as that is the only target available to the Israelis. The nuclear facilities are too spread out and too deeply buried and protected for an attack on the facilities to have any real effect. That leaves only the oil. Such an attack would cause world-wide starvation and economic collapse. Israel does not want to be the “cause” of that.
The Obamists can not be trusted to keep a secret, so I sympathize with Rumsfeld’s remark. But any open attack will lead to open war and we will be in it up to our elbows like it or not. So while they may not want to give up every detail, for their own sake they need to give us a heads up, time to get our own chess pieces into position.
Though, I get the impression we are already moving pieces into position.
I’m of the opinion that war is coming regardless. The nutcases in Iran are going to trigger it if the Israelis don’t do it first. So, regardless, we need to be preparing for what is most assuredly coming and probably soon.
Agreed that Israel should inform us but only after the fact, if we are at all concerned about our blood and treasures.
The enemy is within our gates but so many fail to see............
Nope. Isarel should only inform the U.S. after their planes are returning. Israel could clean up a lot of our grief in the M.E. What usually stops Israel from acting in it's own defense? Every State Department since Poppy Bush. Remember it was Israel who really stops Saddam's WMD program early on. Even though we had a very Israel friendly POTUS at the time they didn't even inform Reagan's State Department. The State Department is a sieve concerning leaks.