Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders chant slogans during a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran. Rouhollah Vahdati / ISNA / APFrom Time Magazine:
As it keeps making its case for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Israel isn't being very subtle: Iran will have a nuclear bomb, possibly as early as this year, its leaders suggest; Iran's leadership is suicidal — it will drop a nuclear bomb on Israel given the opportunity. So how, the Israelis then ask, can we not afford to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, as we did Iraq's in 1981?
Such stark, simplistic logic appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but it skirts a couple of key questions about any such attack. For starters, would it actually succeed in putting a halt to Iran's nuclear program? Leadership at the Pentagon appears to think the answer is no. But what Israel and few others talk about, or not convincingly at least, is the other very risky unknown about such a strike: how exactly Iran would respond to it.
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My Comment: I would have to say that Iran's strategy has worked. President Obama has made it very clear that he would not tolerate an Israeli attack on Iran .... even sending a high official this week to Israel to inform the Israeli PM that the U.S. does not want to be surprised by any Israeli attack on Iran.
Expect fireworks next week when Israel's Prime minister visits Washington.
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