If Israel decides to preemptively strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, a subservient United States could be drawn into another unnecessary but substantial war in the Middle East.
If Israel’s warplanes, donated from the U.S., managed to penetrate Iranian air space and bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, then Iran would be expected to retaliate in a number of ways, including firing of Shahab-3 ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv or attacking Israel through a proxy like Hezbollah.
With domestic politics in the U.S. being as ideologically wedded to Israel as they are, even if it works against U.S. interests, any Iranian retaliation could mean mobilizing American firepower — warplanes, warships, special operations forces and possibly airborne infantry — against Iran.
Not only would it severely destabilize the geopolitics of the volatile region, but it would mean extremely high casualty rate for Iranian civilians and it could prompt a string of violent consequences leading to even broader war. Iran would probably be inclined to attack U.S. military bases in the region, particularly the one in Kuwait or Bahrain, not far from Iran’s southern coast.
Iran has previously threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit route for the world’s oil markets that is constantly patrolled by fleets of U.S. navy warships, but the Strait is of great importance to the Iranian economy, so it has been understood as very unlikely. But if it is faced with war, Iran would then see such a move as worth the costs.
Not only would such a conflict be extremely costly, but it would be entirely uncalled for considering Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon and has demonstrated no intention of doing so, according to the most comprehensive U.S. intelligence.
The fact that a reckless, unjustified Israeli war of aggression in the Middle East should warrant costly U.S. involvement as Israel’s protectorate shows the perversity of U.S. foreign policy. U.S. aid, weapons welfare, and overall unwavering commitment to Israel essentially incentivizes Israeli leadership to behave in reckless, unjustified ways. Perhaps without such unparalleled support, the rate of unnecessary wars in the Middle East would decrease considerably.
9/11 was latest sample of succes, Israel has no problem with "false flags". Israel / Zionism/ invented this horrible kind of terrorism and perfected it over decades. Satanic colonial ideology will provide Humanity with horrors of wars and aggression till "bitter end"…. International Zionism with its "child – Israel" was , is and will remain treat to HUMANKIND till people of the world burry this "Visiable satanic organization on planet Earth" forever….Epic battle " God versus bad" is really "Humanity versus Zionism"
As the choices available to the United States become increasingly unpalatable, a previously unthinkable option, the overthrow of the current Israeli government, must be emerging as more and more attractive by the second. It is, after all, something the United States has done to both friend and foe repeatedly. Don't think for a minute detailed plans for such an action don't sit in the safes of the Pentagon and the White House and State Department. And if it were to happen, it would be with a speed and surprise that would leave assorted lobbies in the United States helpless.
Harry,
NIfty little thought. One I've enjoyed mulling over. It has many variants.
Here's just one:
The US elects a Jewish president. One that's not happy with the price the US (Not to mention the rest of the world. But of course, the rest of the world is not the US president's problem) has had to pay for the Zionist clusterf*ck. So he says, "Enough's enough. We're gonna fix the problem." And he announces that the US will annex Israel and the West Bank, unify them, and make it the fifty-first state. And so he sends six or seven carrier battle groups, all the stealth fighters and bombers, and all the special ops forces to Israel's doorstep, and says, "Whatcha gonna do about it?"
I'll leave it to others to speculate as to how this would play out, whether it would be Masada-lite (if they chose to resist) or The Pledge of Allegiance. But in my version, bloodshed is avoided.
The Jewish president wants to rescue Israel from itself, not accelerate its suicide. Anyway, once in charge the US brings back all the Palestinians, all property issues are adjudicated, and the two groups, Arabs and Jews are required to get the f*ck over it, and live together, just like the other Americans in the other fifty states.
Like I said, just one of many variants.
Dude, unfortunetly Israel has more than 200 nukes, you take an action like that, they will fight you.
Even if you want to annex them, they will fight you, dont you get it yet?
You don't need a jewish president. Most US jews are more sensible than the "christian zionists". Why not bring all of israeli jews and any others that wish, into the USA (say, in Texas) with their walls, sacred sites etc built like a new theme park. In the US the 6 million would hardly be noticed, would fit in well, and the Palestinians would have their land back. No need for wars, or sending billions in arms to the ME.
Oh great! And the 70,000 Haredim can be added to our welfare roles never to get off. The settlers are even worse since they view themselves as a master race and all non-Jews are sub-human. They sure will fit in.
"Iran has previously threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit route for the world’s oil markets that is constantly patrolled by fleets of U.S. navy warships, but the Strait is of great importance to the Iranian economy, so it has been understood as very unlikely. But if it is faced with war, Iran would then see such a move as worth the costs."
Months ago, when Iran announced that it would close the Straits if its oil was embargoed, the response — by some pundit or analyst or "journalist" or govt spokesperson — had two elements: (1) The US Navy would re-open the straits forthwith, and that (2) Iran was bluffing, because their economy was critically dependent on passage of Iranian shipping through the Straits.
Well, I haven't seen anyone rebut those claims, despite the fact that certain factors contradict them.
Particularly in the close quarters of the Straits, Iranian anti-ship missiles comprehensively defeat all US Naval "assets" except dolphins and submarines. The era of surface naval warfare by capital ships is over (but the Navy Dept and their industrial base don't want to talk about that, for obvious reasons).
As to the second point, what brand of jingoistic cluelessness does it take to imagine that the Iranians will close the Straits to their own shipping!!! An Iranian anti-ship missile is unlikely to be fired at Iranian shipping. Passive "dumb" mines — if they even still exist — if laid by Iranians would have coordinates known to the Iranians, allowing Iranian shipping to safely traverse any Iranian mine field. "Smart" mines, in contrast, have sensors capable of distinguishing among individual ships, and would OBVIOUSLY be programmed not to attack Iranian shipping.
Anyway, this is not precisely on topic, but I've been waiting to see someone make these points, and no one has. So, I decided it was time to speak up.
For the sake of a balanced opinion, please spread this around.
Unnecessary war? Wars are when people show their utmost in insanity. The Zionist WILL attack Iran. Zionist are paranoid over the holocaust and have a goal. Their going to take over the west bank and be the supreme power in the Mid East. People there will have to succumb to their will and appetite or be dstroyed. Zionism is a political movement masking as religious. There is NOTHING, I repeat, nothing in the scriptures that could be construed as supporting their actions. Worse, the US is hell bent on making ALL sales in oil tradeable in dollars. They have to. There is no other commodity left to back the dollar. gold, silver and Federal Reserve Notes can't do it. there all pledged out. Read John 3:16. Your eternal life depends on it.
Since when are unnecessary wars a problem with the MIC and AIPAC? In fact, I thought that unnecessary wars was their bread and butter.