Comments on: “Don’t worry, children. Israel will protect you.”

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:24:43 +0000

It’s certainly relevant in a how to guide to creating narcissists.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:14:09 +0000

Re: Ymar and 13. More to do with children than with Israel. Relevant? maybe. maybe not.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15161&R=13A931A1

By: tomc

tomc — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:29:59 +0000

While you are perhaps correct in stating that Israel will probably protect America (though perhaps not Europe, and certainly not the middle east) from an Iranian bomb, what about all other threats ?

America is *NOT* defending itself. Do you seriously think it’ll be long before the next enemy surfaces ? What if Canada evolves in the next 20 years like Europe in the last 20 years ? The US would get a tidal wave of terrorist attacks poured over it.

Israel is a wild card, a joker. It can save your ass. It *may* save your ass *ONCE*. What about the next time ?

By: Al

Al — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:14:42 +0000

If Iran has SS-18s and attempts to launch one, our seismologists should be able to tell the CIA where the launch site is. The SS-18s are rather old and need care and feeding. One would blow up on the pad if the mulhas turned the key.
I’m with T. And I’ll bet there are a lot of fast reaction teams in all the branches just waiting for the word.
Al

By: rockdalian

rockdalian — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:17:45 +0000

Here’s a historical fact: virtually every major IAF operation has been preceded by a carefully planned and executed deception effort. That’s why it would be a mistake for Tehran, the Europeans and the U.S. to accept this month’s exercise as the template for an actual strike. If past performance is any indicator, the Israelis still have a few tricks up their sleeve.

Spook86
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/

For what its worth, I am disappointed that our leaders lack the will to confront this situation now.

By: suek

suek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:20:49 +0000

Note good ol’ El Baradei again. That guy’s a mole…

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/06/news-digest-israeli-dry-run-on-irans.html

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:20:26 +0000

Contrary to its official assertion, therefore, Israel was not in ‘mortal danger’ of being outgunned. It faced a potential danger of losing its Middle East nuclear monopoly, of being deterred one day from the use of atomic weapons in war.”

If having nukes means you deter others from using nukes, why then would people who don’t have nukes, be detered from acquiring them?

And if Israel is the only one with nukes, and the only deterence comes from others having nukes, why hasn’t Israel used them already?

The New York Times is made up out of restards.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:19:19 +0000

, we kind of owe it our kids to protect them or, at least, shield them from too much reality, I mean violence.

That’s how the Baby Boomer generation was raised after the destruction of WWII.

Things didn’t really turn out well by shielding people from reality.

They have not learned a damn thing

By: suek

suek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:50:33 +0000

>>Think they’ve learned anything since then?>>

Think they’d be in favor of disarming police officers???

It really isn’t the weapon - it’s who’s going to use it and for what purpose…

By: David Foster

David Foster — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:43:17 +0000

When Israeli jets destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facilities in 1981, the NYT ran a pretty bizarre editorial. Excerpt:

“Even assuming that Iraq was hellbent to divert enriched uranium for the manufacture of nuclear weapons, it would have been working toward a capacity that Israel itself acquired long ago.

Think they’ve learned anything since then?