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Originally Posted by Guest
Bibi rocks, but unfortunately Israel will have to go it alone against Iran if it wants to survive. Nuclear weapons are a game changer. Iran lobs one at Israel, via missile or more likely via a terrorist, and there really isn't the time to take weeks or months and definitively determine the source of the fissile material. By the time you do that your country is destroyed.
This compressed time frame between attack and counter-attack is problematic. Failure to respond in kind within minutes risks complete destruction. The chance for a nuclear volleyball game in the mideast is real and growing more likely as Iran approaches nuclear weapons capability.
At any rate, North Korea is producing nuclear weapons as fast as it can and it will only be a matter of time before they sell some to terrorists to attack the Great Satan (USA). Will the US respond before the country of origin of the material is determined? The risks of failing to respond are devastating. These nuclear war "what ifs" are being constantly war-gamed. The unfortunate part is that your enemy in some scenarios DOES NOT concern itself with MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION! What then?
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What then....indeed! Do you preemptively attack based on a fear? Is that justifiable? Do you have to wait to be attacked? If you do wait, then the trigger must be nearly instantaneous in response or your risk annihilation. If you're going to get annihilated anyway...the likely outcome in any nuclear exchange between Iran-Israel...why hold back on your retaliation? (by Israel)
These nuclear scenarios in the middle east are devastating. All capitals and major cities do not survive. Actually just a lot of glass and very few survivors. Then there's the radioactive fallout and uninhabitable land for 50,000 years. These are bad outcomes, with lots of religious overtones, permeated with a lot of craziness and delusion. The one certainty is that if the nuclear option is ever played, the result will be devastating and nearly instantaneous. With so many crazy martyr types in the area, it certainly does not bode well for Israel.
Why Obama gets his feelings hurt, and why he places his bruised ego above the threat to Israel's very survival, is beyond normal comprehension. Obama is a narcissist extraordinaire, and his illness no doubt clouds his greater judgement. This is not an inconvenience to Israel, this is a threat to this tiny nation's very survival.
The real question I have is... why do American Jews OVERWHELMINGLY support Obama (AND vote Democrat!) when he doesn't support Israel?
