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Strategic asset or rogue state? Israel’s threats to Iran ‘concern’ Pentagon

More drumbeats of an Iran attack. AP is reporting that Israeli president Shimon Peres says the “international community is closer to pursuing a military solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program than a diplomatic one.”

This won’t help the Israeli relationship with the U.S. Today on CNN, Fareed Zakaria deplored the “huge cost” to the U.S. of a possible Israeli attack on Iran, and Barbara Starr, who is said to be a mouthpiece for top Pentagon officials, expressed concern about it. From her online piece: 

The United States has become increasingly concerned Israel could be preparing to strike Iran’s nuclear program, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.

 In the past, the U.S. officials felt they had assurances from Israel that it would give warning to the United States of any attack.

“Now that doesn’t seem so ironclad,” the official said…

The official underscored long-standing U.S. military concerns about the risk of hostilities to American troops in the region, both those still in Iraq and U.S. naval forces and ground forces throughout the Persian Gulf.  The official also strongly emphasized the United States has no current intention of striking Iran.

Daily Beast’s Bruce Riedel deplores the idea. Rick Perry loves it. Herman Cain thinks Israel is attacking China.

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Politicians are clueless. I bet none of them could even pass the Sri Lanka test (find Sri Lanka on a map).

The US might have been ‘hinting’ that a military option was on their table, but only to satisfy Israel. The US can not afford it. The consequences would be drastic even at the very least (like $15/gallon gas). The worst case scenario is not just a regional war either, but a global (nuclear) one. It is in no human being’s best interest to support a military strike on Iran. Rick Perry should go to prison for even saying what he said. A military prison, after he is stripped of his citizenship.

Frankly, I don’t believe for a moment that the Pentagon is against an Israeli attack on Iran.

Granted, the Pentagon does have its concerns. For example, it is concerned about US troops stationed in the region, in countries like Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.

But, one must keep in mind three important pieces of information:

1) US Troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq by next month.

2) Press reports from Britain indicating that Britain was preparing an attack on Iran could be a clue into what is currently taking place behind the scenes. It’s quite possible that only Britain will join Israel in attacking Iran, thus the US would at least officially not participate, hence minimize the risk of an Iranian attack on its troops in the Gulf.

3) CIA officials have been making the rounds in the region, namely Egypt, and Bahrain in what newspapers have characterized as an attempt to prepare the groundwork for an attack on Iran.

I would treat the information from Barbara Starr as disinformation, a deliberate attempt at misdirection. And that is what, “[A] mouthpiece for top Pentagon officials” usually does.

Rick Perry is a very cunning, deceiving psychopath ,who should not hold anything except a broom to sweep floors in the public restrooms.
Or,
he should be send ASAP on the first kamikaze plane to some remote, desolated area. What a creep.

Somewhat off topic, today’s Washington Post carries an obituary for Marla Gilson, a lobbyist and Democratic Party activist who for more than a decade had been the chief lobbyist for Hadassah. She began her career as a congressional staffer for Democrats in Congress, and then joined AIPAC as a lobbyist and director of community relations.

She stayed involved in Democratic Party politics. She met her husband Carl Tuvin, a lobbyist and public relations consultant, at a party for another Democratic activist. The couple married in 1984, while Ms. Gilson was working on former vice president Walter Mondale’s unsuccessful presidential campaign.

From 1997 to 2010, she headed the Washington action office of Hadassah.

At a 2009 meeting with Jewish leaders at the White House, she made a point of thanking President Obama in person for signing an executive order ending a Bush-era limit on federal tax money for embryonic stem cell research.

She was laid off from Hadassah in 2010 when the group lost millions of dollars in the massive fraud perpetrated by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff. The Association of Jewish Aging Services recruited her to be its leader, and she was diagnosed six months later with leukemia.

Says a lot about what goes on in D.C.

clearly israel is a rogue state and a fanatical one at that if it’s contemplating shit like this… it’s really disturbing how a country that is supposed to be founded in part on their own possible genocide is considering expressing the same to others here… what is up with these crazies?

my answer – they are scared of their own friggin shadow but unable or more likely) unwilling to go in for counseling…..