We don't have to fight it
by Justin Raimondo, August 22, 2012
"Has there ever been a more brazen display of a foreign government dragging a more powerful nation into a war not of its own choosing? I’m talking about the almost comical efforts by the Israelis to goad Washington into attacking Iran: the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has done everything and then some to put pressure on the Obama administration to act. The latest display of overt manipulation was recently featured on Israeli television:
“Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘is determined to attack Iran before the US elections,’ Israel’s Channel 10 News claimed on Monday night, and Israel is now ‘closer than ever’ to a strike designed to thwart Iran’s nuclear drive… The report added that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak believe Obama would have no choice but to give backing for an Israeli attack before the US presidential elections in November.”
Imagine, for a moment, Another Obama, one who exists in an alternate universe where American Presidents don’t kowtow to the demands of pipsqueak nations with delusions of grandeur — especially those whose security and prosperity are entirely dependent on our generosity. This Obama would answer these blackmailers with an unequivocal statement that the Israelis are on their own if and when they attack: that the US will not lift a finger to help them — no, not even if Israel itself comes under attack, as it will....."
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