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Israeli or U.S. Action Against Iran: Who Will Do It If It Must Be Done?
2013-05-31
The case study presented below outlines one possible scenario for future U.S.-Israeli decisionmaking on Iran's nuclear program. Given the spectrum of other available options, military force should only be employed against the program as a last resort. Yet the military option must still be credible, and ready to use if necessary. This case study is intended solely to stimulate and inform further discussion on the potential repercussions of different strike options.

It is late 2013 and the prime minister of Israel has just received a phone call from the White House relaying the findings of a recent U.S. intelligence assessment: international sanctions and negotia­tions with Iran have yet to persuade the regime to halt its nuclear drive. Tehran previously rejected a generous U.S. offer that would have allowed it to enrich uranium in exchange for strong nuclear safeguards, and the program continues to advance unabated. After agreeing to convene in Washing­ton in one week to discuss strategy going forward, the prime minister and president each call a meeting with their national security advisors.

The president's team acknowledges that the United States is war weary, debt laden, and politi­cally gridlocked. With U.S. forces having just withdrawn from Iraq and on a path to end combat operations in Afghanistan by late 2014, many hope that the attendant diversion of resources will spring the country from its financial woes and accelerate its economic recovery.
Posted by:Thromotch Pheatle9230

#4  And the Pentagon has a little rainbow-colored butterfly tattooed under its shorts.

fify....

Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-05-31 13:35  

#3  Lets all sit down and blather like bureacrats and TALK about action. The UNITED STATES will sit there and do NOTHING. Obama NEVER will fight. Ever. For anything.

As long as Obama is President, the US will do absolutely zip.

The men in the Pentagon all wear suits and like to steer their desks. They will do nothing.

Iran will get the Atomic and get the means to deliver it too. Israel can't do it alone no matter how determined they are.

And the US lacks the Will to do anything but scratch itself and grow hair.

Iran LAUGHS at and does as it pleases. Sanctions won't stop them and Chamberlain is alive and well at the State Dept. The monkeys killed an American ambassador and we bent over.

get real...the US won't fight and the American people won't either. There just IS no Leadership. And the Pentagon has a little buttefly tattooed under its shorts.
Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823   2013-05-31 07:06  

#2  IMO, as far Israel's decision makers are concerned, the study is based on two outdated premises.
(i) Surgical strikes.
Iranians are not children from whom you take a dangerous toy while trying not to hurt them. Iran's ability to wage war should be destroyed by removing its economic/technological infrastructure---at least it's ability to get hard cash.
(ii) Israel should rely/coordinate its action with USA.
Even under friendly administrations, USA interference in ME was not an unmixed blessing.
For examples: Reagan in Lebanon, Bush turning Iran's only natural enemy into Iranian satellite, etc... . For a current administration of baby Bolsheviks, Israel's main concern is whether USA forces stationed in the Gulf will be ordered to attack Israeli forces dealing with Iran.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-05-31 03:13  

#1  IMO in both Israel's + Iran's mind any so-called "US/US-led Airstrike(s)" is synonymous wid GROUND INVASION + OCCUPATION by same.

Widout it one is just delaying Iran from dev Nukes, NOT stopping it.

In paraph, MSM-Net Artic about the tensions between China + Japan, ASEAN over in East Asia makes it clear that DIPLOMACY ONLY HAS "LEVERAGE(S)" WHEN BACKED UP BY MILITARY FORCE/POWER.

IT HAS ALSO BEEN PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED ANDOR INFERRED IN MSM-NET ARTICS THAT THE ONLY REAL THING IRAN + OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES WILL RESPECT IS "FORCE" - IOW, however successful or not Diploamcy won't mean anything to these Nations iff they preceive the US-Allies are bluffing, insincere, or weak, + NOT GOING TO RESORT TO MAJOR OR DECISIVE MILITARY FORCE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-05-31 01:40  

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