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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: CatholicCrusader on February 28, 2012, 09:10:03 AM
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Israel’s vow of silence on Iran strike may be a message to Washington
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/worldview/israels-vow-of-silence-on-iran-strike-may-be-a-message-to-washington/article2352400/ (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/worldview/israels-vow-of-silence-on-iran-strike-may-be-a-message-to-washington/article2352400/)
If Israeli warplanes attack Iran’s nuclear sites, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to keep President Barack Obama in the dark, according to senior American intelligence officials.
Given the mutual antipathy – verging on open disdain – between the two leaders, such a snub might seem unsurprising. But far more is at stake than the chilliest relations between an American president and an Israeli leader since the United States backstopped the creation of the Jewish State six decades ago.
Claiming it will keep Washington ignorant about any decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites – Israeli’s openly mooted option of pre-emptive attacks to keep Tehran’s ruling mullahs from getting nuclear weapons – may be more about posturing than any military reality.
Previous Israeli attacks on nuclear sites – in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007 – were single-strike events, against much-closer Arab countries with far-weaker air defences and all of their, still-under-construction, nuclear facilities clustered at one target site. Whether Washington was tipped off in advance remains an official secret but in neither case was American connivance needed. So plausible deniability remained........<SNIP>
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It may send a message to DC, but don't look for those clueless bastards to catch it. ::rockets::
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It may send a message to DC, but don't look for those clueless bastards to catch it. ::rockets::
I don't know if the message is meant more for DC or Tehran
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It may send a message to DC, but don't look for those clueless bastards to catch it. ::rockets::
I don't know if the message is meant more for DC or Tehran
I would have to say both, but only Tehran will listen.
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My opinion can be found here -
http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,3674.120.html (http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,3674.120.html)
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They aren't talking because Stymie's admin. leaks like a sieve . Sure as hell if Israel were to inform them the exact date and time would be spilled all over the msm .
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They aren't talking because Stymie's admin. leaks like a sieve . Sure as hell if Israel were to inform them the exact date and time would be spilled all over the msm .
That, and it would solidify this administrations moves behind the scenes to screw it up.
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That, and it would solidify this administrations moves behind the scenes to screw it up.
Oh, I am sure they are doing their best to screw the Israelis already.
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That, and it would solidify this administrations moves behind the scenes to screw it up.
Oh, I am sure they are doing their best to screw the Israelis already.
As am I, and as are the Israelis, thus why give them anything solid.
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They aren't talking because Stymie's admin. leaks like a sieve .
Unless it's incriminating.......like F&F. ::outrage::
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They aren't talking because Stymie's admin. leaks like a sieve .
Unless it's incriminating.......like F&F. ::outrage::
Everything about Stymie is incriminating. Not since the Clinton Administration have shredders been put on overtime.