An "entangling alliance" to attack Iran

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I realize how controversial this is, and the strong feelings on all sides, but if a citizen has an obligation, surely, it is to state his honest view of the prospect of his country going to war...
SOURCE URL: http://www.thesavvystreet.com/mr-netanyahu-prepares-to-attack-iran-with-u-s-bombs/


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  • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 8 months ago
    In news reports I have read over the past few days there have been:
    1. Islamist terrorist attack in Yemen
    2. " " " " Tunisia
    3. " " " " Nigeria
    4. Yet more atrocities by ISIL/IS
    5. Condemnation of the re-election of Israeli PM Netanyahu despite clear preferences stated, and money going to the other candidate, by OB.
    6. Another UN 'status of women commission' saying Israel is the worst violator. The members include Saudi, Sudan, Iran, Qatar, Pakistan....
    7. And now! WDonway writes an article against Netanyahu and asks for support of OB -presumably to support a treaty allowing Iran to have nukes.

    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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  • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 8 months ago
    For the record, I comment on the Savvy Street article which has errors, crucial omissions and innuendos some of which are:

    Iran has been active in violence world-wide not just in neighbors.
    No mention of the present and previous Iranian leaders stated intention to annihilate Israel.
    Arab voters in Israel- That the 20% of voters who are Arab is itself worth noting. To discuss if they arrived at polling booths by bus or on foot is to trivialize the importance that their vote matters, contrast with voting in Samaria/Judea and Gaza - none, or the guided controlled voting in Iran.

    The British occupation- 'keep the peace', there was no peace, the British permitted Arab violence and attacked Jews in order to try to divert Arab opinion away from Husseini the admirer of Hitler. Attempts to double-cross both sides made enemies of both.

    Progress of Iran's nuclear weapons- the article's mention of very diverse and very deep facilities indicate the writer's opinion, not that that is worth much. An opinion that in referring to a level of concealment and protection could hardly be that the facilities are development labs for electricity generation.

    " give millions of Palestinians, driven out by Israel when it declared independence in 1948, their own (albeit much reduced) nation"
    Correction . The number of Arabs who left their homes mainly as a result of threats by Arab terrorist groups was about 400,000. We have been over that before, more Jews were driven out of Arab nations. All of those were settled in Israel, very few of the Arab refugees were allowed into neighboring nations.
    Correction . They were offered a nation when Britain split their Mandate of Palestine into two, an Arab nation now called Jordan was created, and
    Correction . when the western part of British Palestine was again split, the Arabs rejected that.

    After making a few of the many possible corrections, honest views may be expressed based on knowledge. An informed honest view would be to recognize the aggressive and insulting attitude of Iran to the US. To have a friend attack a mutual enemy is a matter of concern to some, of relief to others and better sooner than later. If left too late there is a strong parallel with N.Korea, now nuclear armed. Was it Gen McArthur who wanted to finish the job?

    What we do to keep kh entertained!
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  • Posted by 9 years, 8 months ago
    I think it is true that bombing Iran will not be sufficient to stop their developing a nuclear weapon if that is their goal. It is on record that after Israel bombed Iraq's research nuclear facility, in 1981, Saddam, in a fury, assigned thousands of scientists and billions of dollars to developing a bomb. (Nothing came of it.) World wars are not started by third-world, limited nations, but by the world's leading military powers. What IS true is that such wars often begin over conflicts in smaller nations (WWI over Serbia, WWII over Poland). Could a nation in the Middle East be the occasion, or excuse, for the next worldwide conflagration?
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  • Posted by Crushmore 9 years, 8 months ago
    One of the problems with bombing Iran to cripple it's nuclear capabilities is that it is known that this will only postpone the inevitable conclusion. Iran will have nuclear bombs.
    It will start World War 4.
    People will probably actually blame Israel.
    Iran and Russia can, "blame the Jews!"


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  • Posted by 9 years, 8 months ago
    There are many problems and evils in the Islamic world, the recent grossest being ISIS. The UN is only organization riddled with ridiculous views as that on women in Israel. Allegation of "foreign money and influence" in Israeli election should be investigated; it might be as much one one-hundredth as serious as the Israeli interference in U.S. politics through AIPAC. But...my only issue is that a military attack on Iran is not warranted, dangerous, and should be discouraged by the United States, which should dissociate itself from it. As with the Israeli attack on Iraq, almost universally condemned as unwarranted (including by many, many Israeli military chiefs who opposed the veteran terrorist Prime Minister Menachem Begin), the attack on Iran, at this time, is unwarranted. That may not always be the case.
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