rise of the realists, re Iran

the best thing about this stuff is that it is on CNN and that Jake Tapper of ABC is picking it up on his blog. Gives hope that it is Obama’s thinking too.

"This is the worst thing that one can imagine," [Russian
President Dmitri] Medvedev said [on CNN]. "What would happen afterwards? A humanitarian catastrophe, a huge number of refugees. And Iran would want revenge, and not only over Israel, but over other countries as well. The events in the region would become completely unpredictable. I think the scope of such a disaster would not be comparable to anything. Therefore, before taking the decision to launch any attacks, you need to think the situation through. It would be the most irrational way to deal with the situation. But my Israeli colleagues told me they do not plan to do that. And I trust them.`

And Brzezinski, to the Daily Beast:

"They [Israel] have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? … We have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a ‘Liberty’ in reverse."

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