Does Israel Have Justification For a Strike Against Iran?...
by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs-Tyranny
Israel certainly has reason for its concern over Iran's nuclear intentions. After all Iranian President Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of the Israeli state.
Of course the leftist media and leftist blogistan finds little reason for concern.
Even the administration of our leftist leaning president Barack Obama has kept the possibility of a military strikes against Iran on the table. This is of course in the hope that talking tough will encourage Iran to scrap its nuclear weapons intentions which it so blithely denies having.
The Obama administration is warning Israel not to initiate a strike against Iran. Something Rational Nation USA has long felt is in the world's best interest.
If in fact Iran poses a strategic threat to U.S. and world security interests it would be in everyone's best interest for the U.S. {as well as the rest of the free world) to give the green light to Israel to strike.
Our position should be one of support only. Under no circumstance should the U.S. commit American military service personnel. Our role, as well as that of other free nations should be to supply weapons and moral support to the Israeli people and their government.
The Wall Street Journal had this in response to the issue:
Certainly Israel has the right to defend itself from a very real yet unjustified threat of extinction. The world at large has a ethical responsibility to support and help Israel to defend itself against the threat of annihilation.
However, no nation has a "duty" to commit the life of a single single citizen on the ground in the process.
Via: Memeorandum
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs-Tyranny
Israel certainly has reason for its concern over Iran's nuclear intentions. After all Iranian President Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of the Israeli state.
Of course the leftist media and leftist blogistan finds little reason for concern.
Even the administration of our leftist leaning president Barack Obama has kept the possibility of a military strikes against Iran on the table. This is of course in the hope that talking tough will encourage Iran to scrap its nuclear weapons intentions which it so blithely denies having.
The Obama administration is warning Israel not to initiate a strike against Iran. Something Rational Nation USA has long felt is in the world's best interest.
If in fact Iran poses a strategic threat to U.S. and world security interests it would be in everyone's best interest for the U.S. {as well as the rest of the free world) to give the green light to Israel to strike.
Our position should be one of support only. Under no circumstance should the U.S. commit American military service personnel. Our role, as well as that of other free nations should be to supply weapons and moral support to the Israeli people and their government.
The Wall Street Journal had this in response to the issue:
WASHINGTON—U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran, over U.S. objections, and have stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region in case of a conflict.
President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top officials have delivered a string of private messages to Israeli leaders warning about the dire consequences of a strike. The U.S. wants Israel to give more time for the effects of sanctions and other measures intended to force Iran to abandon its perceived efforts to build nuclear weapons.
Stepping up the pressure, Mr. Obama spoke by telephone on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will meet with Israeli military officials in Tel Aviv next week.
The high-stakes planning and diplomacy comes as U.S. officials warn Tehran, including through what administration officials described Friday as direct messages to Iran's leaders, against provocative actions.
Tehran has warned that it could retaliate to tightened sanctions by blocking oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz. On Thursday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to punish the perpetrators of the assassination—blamed by Iran on the U.S. and Israel—of an Iranian scientist involved in the nuclear program.
The U.S. denied the charge and condemned the attack. Israel hasn't commented.
The U.S. and Iran, however, have taken steps in recent days apparently designed to ease tensions. Iran has agreed to host a delegation of United Nations nuclear inspectors this month. The U.S., meanwhile, has twice this month rescued Iranian sailors in the region's seas.
Covert efforts by Israel's intelligence service to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons have been credited with slowing the program without the high risk of military conflict that could be sparked by an airstrike. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful uses.
But Israel has declined to rule out a strike, as has the U.S. {Read More}
Certainly Israel has the right to defend itself from a very real yet unjustified threat of extinction. The world at large has a ethical responsibility to support and help Israel to defend itself against the threat of annihilation.
However, no nation has a "duty" to commit the life of a single single citizen on the ground in the process.
Via: Memeorandum
The "leftist media and leftist blogistan" do find serious concern with Iran, an unstable, large theocracy. That's why it's all over the news, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd our "leftist leaning president Barack Obama" apparently is very "concerned" with this also. He's taking the usual defensive posture (nothing "leftist" about that).
A nuclear Iran would add quite new dynamic to the Middle East. It could be a cold war with Israel that would only be repeating the same stupid nonsense of America and the USSR in the 20th century.
At what point do we all see this as stupidity?
You want to help Israel fight Iran? Reverse the sanctions! Allow unlimited flow of Western amenities to Iran! Why not? They are already supposedly getting ahead on the bad technologies, so what else do we have to lose?
Sometimes I think I agree with you Objectivists and Libertarians and Conservatives more than you agree with yourselves.
In other words, the world could live with a nuclear Iran. They are a modern and developed people. Reach the people, and we can avoid a lot of misery and bloodshed.
I know the Iranian regime blocks Western culture, but the technology can easily get around them, and that's where we need our government to step up. We have American tech companies profiting from deals the Iranian regime to produce technology designed to spy on the Iranian people and do them serious harm.
That's an example of when we need a government, a government that represents the American people, to step up and stop that.
I think Paul supporters should be talking about that.
JMJ
jmj - Valid argument. While I absolutely do not trust the Iranian regime I personally know many Iranian people. They are for the most part very pro American, or should I say pro western? At any rate you make a very strong argument, one which I can support. Until such time as the Iranian Theocracy takes aggressive action against either Israel or some western ally.
ReplyDeleteLes: What I don't understand is why we have not been covertly helping the dissidents there. They should be in the throes of a Persian Spring, but Obummer blew it and kept silent as the Mullahs murdered people in the streets. It sickens me to think of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that we should not invade.
I don't understand it either Silver, because I suspect the Iranian people might have overthrown the mullahs had they believed outside support would have been with them.
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