In need of a war...
The truth is that Netanyahu and Barak did not
order the military to plan a direct, all-out attack on Iran. Their true
intention was to trigger aso called chain of events which would create
tension and provoke Iran, and eventually could have led to a war that might
drag in the United States.
Laura Rosen acknowledges recent reports that “Netanyahu was not planning to launch an all-out attack on Iran in 2010,” but rather to provoke Iran into striking first.
Think about the context of this. Netanyahu and Barak so desperately craved war that they sought to harass and threaten Iran in order to appear a credible and imminent enough threat that Iran would strike preemptively. And the US – Israel’s one major ally, their primary source of economic and military aid, the only reason the international community hasn’t forced them to stop committing crimes against the Palestinians – was to get dragged into this long and discretionary war.
American taxpayers are giving up $3 billion dollars a year, plus a poisoned political system where submissive deference to Israel is all but mandatory, to a country that literally planned to get thousands of our soldiers killed, hundreds of billions of our dollars wasted, and to destabilize the entire Middle East.
Melman continues:
One such scary scenario was the possibility
that Iranian intelligence could have noticed the Israeli military preparations
and decided to stage a pre-emptive strike against Israel or US targets in the
region. Israel, in such a situation, would have claimed that it was a victim of
Iranian aggression and retaliated. America, too, could have found itself caught
up in an unpredictable circle of violence.
Sources who were privy to the secret
deliberations told me that Ashkenazi and Dagan eventually managed to convince
the security cabinet and then the full cabinet, which are the only authorized
bodies to decide on war and other vital issues, that Netanyahu and Barak were
playing with fire and may not only ignite a regional war in the Middle East,
but also ruin decades of close, intimate strategic cooperation with the US.
Imagine the outrage, the indignation, if it were publicly revealed that the leadership in any other country in the world did this to the United States. Can you even imagine any plausible scenario where aid and support would continue?
By the way, we’ve seen this kind of thinking before right here in the United States. In September, Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policymuch attention when he suggested the United States should provoke Iran into starting a war. These examples should illustrate just how (un)necessary a war with Iran is, given that Iran seemingly refuses to be the one to start it.(thanks to J.Glaser)
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