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2012-04-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Small Wars Journal: Why Israel Will Attack Iran

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Posted by trailing wife 2012-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Tic Tock.

Posted by newc 2012-04-08 01:07|| 2012-04-08 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, boys will be boys.
-Ronald Reagan

Posted by bigjim-CA 2012-04-08 01:57|| 2012-04-08 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Forgot the most important reason. Most Israelis come to understand that
(i) Peace with Muslims is impossible.
(ii) Western powers no longer interested in survival.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-04-08 03:59|| 2012-04-08 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Or possibly US leaders believe the Iranian nuclear program is less of an immediate threat than, say, the implosion of Pakistan with a concommitant proliferation of tactical nukes into the hands of various hard-to-trace terror groups.

Posted by lotp 2012-04-08 09:31|| 2012-04-08 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The loss of Abyssinia was much less important than the reoccupation of the Rhineland. But both should have been opposed. And opposing the first might have prevented the second. The Pakis need to be made to understand that the nukes make them more insecure rather than less. Making Persia an example might help. Pour l'encouragement des autres.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-04-08 09:45|| 2012-04-08 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The issue is less what the current Pakistani leaders believe, Nimble, than what might happen if control structures currently in place fall apart. That is a greater-than-zero possibility.

Posted by lotp 2012-04-08 11:39|| 2012-04-08 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I think the issue is exactly what they think. And they should think that if control structures currently in place fail, they're all dead. And that should be the message from an attack on Israel. We should be trying to make the Paks come to the conclusion they are better off without nukes.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-04-08 13:11|| 2012-04-08 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Or possibly US leaders believe

see (b).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-04-08 13:41|| 2012-04-08 13:41|| Front Page Top

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