Amid reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is heading to Israel next week for talks on Teheran’s nuclear program, a senior US defense official has told The Jerusalem Post that an Israeli strike on Iran could be profoundly destabilizing and would affect US interests.
Israel needed to take its relationship with America into account in contemplating any such attack, he warned.
Gates, who last week described the Islamic republic’s nuclear drive as the greatest current threat to global security, is set to spend six hours here next Monday, discussing the Iranian threat with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. He will also visit Jordan, according to officials involved in planning the trip.
He’s exactly right about Iran's nuclear drive being the greatest global threat. So why then is Gates more concerned about the possibility of Israel taking out Iran’s nukes than he is about Iran acquiring nuclear weaponry?
In his interview with the Post at the Pentagon, the senior US defense official also suggested that Syria might be ready to "fundamentally" reorient its position toward the United States, which would include restarting talks with Israel, at a time when Hamas and Hizbullah have been put "on the defensive" by Obama administration policies and events in Iran.
Those events, said the official, who insisted on anonymity, hadn't been seen to affect Iran's timeline on developing nuclear weapons. What was clear, he indicated, was the negative effect an Israeli strike would have.
"A unilateral third-party attack on Iran's nuclear program could have profoundly destabilizing consequences, and it wouldn't just affect the general level of stability in the region. It would affect Israel's security and it would affect our interests, and the safety of our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere," the official said, when asked if the US expected Israel to inform it of any decision to strike Iran.
"It's a pretty big deal, and given the closeness of our relationship with Israel, I think we would hope that they would take those strategic calculations into account."
His comments in the interview, conducted on Friday, came on the heels of conflicting signs from the Obama administration about whether it had given Israel a so-called "green light" to attack Iran, after Vice President Joe Biden said "Israel can determine for itself - it's a sovereign nation - what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else" on July 5.
Obama clarified on CNN later in the week that he had "absolutely not" given Israel permission to strike Iran.
Why the fuck would Israel need obama’s permission to to protect itself from annihilation? Who the fuck does obama think he is? First he demands that Jews in Israel be forbidden to live in certain parts of their homeland and not expand their families, now he is expecting that Israel be a sitting duck for Iranian nukes rather than take preemptive action to insure their own survival. Someone really needs to put this arrogant ass in his place. Read the rest
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He is NOT an American citizen!
He is an Islamic terroist COMMUNIST USURPER. read about him! He SUCKS! literally.
In retrospect perhaps I should not have deleted the last three comments. In response to the accusation that I am unpatriotic, I voted for the naval aviator who was a POW while you voted for a communist, muslim, foreign born usurper who travels the world apologizing for America for what he perceives to be our grave misdeeds. 'Nuff said. The left are the most unpatriotic, anti-American scoundrels around.
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