A neocon split on Barack and iran http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/a-neocon-split-on-barack-and-iran/ Leading neoconservatives WIlliam Kristol and Robert Kagan are disagreeing about President Obama’s engagement toward Iran. en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-03-27T;02:13:00-05:00 Comment by David Bronder david.bronder@conus.army.mil This President of the United States is problematic for William Kristol.  That makes me sleep better at night. Israel should develop missle defense and covert ops designed to stop nuclear attack.  Sooner or later Israel is going to have to settle into the current game of mutual destruction that has been working for everyone else since the beginning.  If Tehran launches their one little bomb, then Israel launches their 300 high-tech superbombs.  Hopefully, Iran is smarter than that. There is no more eloquent argument for resolving differences than the fact that technologies will be spreading and nothing can be done to stop them.  More countries than Iran will have the bomb.  Do you want to do some pre-bombing in those other countries too?  It is insane.  If anyone had an ounce of wisdom they would see the writing on the wall and conclude that the time for peace between Israel and her neighboors is now a desperate necessity. This President of the United States is problematic for William Kristol.  That makes me sleep better at night.

Israel should develop missle defense and covert ops designed to stop nuclear attack.  Sooner or later Israel is going to have to settle into the current game of mutual destruction that has been working for everyone else since the beginning.  If Tehran launches their one little bomb, then Israel launches their 300 high-tech superbombs.  Hopefully, Iran is smarter than that.

There is no more eloquent argument for resolving differences than the fact that technologies will be spreading and nothing can be done to stop them.  More countries than Iran will have the bomb.  Do you want to do some pre-bombing in those other countries too?  It is insane.  If anyone had an ounce of wisdom they would see the writing on the wall and conclude that the time for peace between Israel and her neighboors is now a desperate necessity.

]]> 2012-05-23T;03:01:00-05:00 Comment by Mark S. Devenow attymsd@gmail.com The “risk(s)” that Robert Kagan claim do not exist in relation to Obama’s departure from the American policy toward Iran existing up until the point Obama took office (and effectively reversed its course) are two: 1) that the assumption among the ruling mullahs in Iran that Iran may amass nuclear weapons sans any serious effort on the part of the civilized world will be now impossible to disabuse; and, worse still, 2) that an Obama administration already steeped in either extreme and arrant naivete and illusion where it comes to the motivations of America’s declared enemies, may, in its own right, be impossible to disabuse of its illusions/delusions before it is too late. The “risk(s)” that Robert Kagan claim do not exist in relation to Obama’s departure from the American policy toward Iran existing up until the point Obama took office (and effectively reversed its course) are two: 1) that the assumption among the ruling mullahs in Iran that Iran may amass nuclear weapons sans any serious effort on the part of the civilized world will be now impossible to disabuse; and, worse still, 2) that an Obama administration already steeped in either extreme and arrant naivete and illusion where it comes to the motivations of America’s declared enemies, may, in its own right, be impossible to disabuse of its illusions/delusions before it is too late.

]]> 2012-05-23T;03:01:00-05:00 Comment by sylvia scott sylvan1261@verizon.net I believe the crucial issue is how much time can we allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons? Not much is my estimation. Iran has defiantly ignored all sanctions, fooled past inspectors, and has continued to pursue her ambitions for dominance in the Middle East-and beyond. When she starts chanting “We’re going to push Israel into the Sea” and “Death to the U.S.” I think it’s more dangerous to deal with a nuclear Iran, than to do it now. If the U.S. would act quickly, I feel it would send a clear message of warning to others with similar ambitions. I believe the crucial issue is how much time can we allow Iran to acquire
nuclear weapons? Not much is my estimation. Iran has defiantly ignored
all sanctions, fooled past inspectors, and has continued to pursue her ambitions for dominance in the Middle East-and beyond. When she starts chanting “We’re going to push Israel into the Sea” and “Death to the U.S.” I think it’s more dangerous to deal with a nuclear Iran, than to do it now. If the U.S. would act quickly, I feel it would send a clear message of warning to others with similar ambitions.

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