Recent reports have the negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran going extremely well, and some officials have even expressed a belief that a negotiated settlement was very possible. If you’re an opponent on a US war on Iran, this would be a very good thing.
But if you’re an Obama Administration official, its time to start throwing out threats, as US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro did today, insisting that the ongoing negotiations didn’t mean the US wasn’t going to just attack Iran some day, and claiming that the military option was “ready” to be executed at any given time.
Officials say that Shapiro’s comments were made in a “closed meeting” in Israel, and he didn’t expect them to be made public. But while the possibility of war is almost always couched as higher when an official is talking in, to, or about Israel, it is hard to imagine that his off the record comments weren’t a sincere belief.
US officials have constantly been the potential spoiler in the P5+1 talks with Iran, scheduled to resume next week in Baghdad. The administration’s goal seems to be to see the talks fail in such a way that Russia and China grudgingly accept the US calls for a war, but throwing out overt threats on the eve of talks is counterproductive to that end, and will just convince those diplomats not enamoured of the war that negotiations could be successful, if the US were at least a little less pig-headed about it.
So it was a "closed" meeting in which Shapiro commented to those pursuing war against Iran. Does one have to wonder how or why Shapiro's warmongering comments were made public?
This cartoon says it all!
http://972mag.com/the-hater-in-the-sky-by-eli-val…
War and especialy proposed War of aggression would be nothing else then Mass murder – made by Zionist lobby namely AIPAC. Israel is truly "Nightmare to internacional community". Humanity will dearly regret the creation of such Colonist place in Heart of ME in 1946 as worsest mistake ever made by UN . Well meant project went horribly wrong…!!!!. Days of relative harmony between Christians, Muslims and Jews / RealJews/ are forever over. Truly Satanic, Colonial and Brutal Ideology Zionism with stockpile of illegal WMD with its warmongering leaders and messianic vision may cource WW3.
Bible and its prophecies may prove to be correct again….Its very sad, many people cant see through constant kind of "Goebles propaganda" – prospect of destroyed Earth or max. World divided into Big Palestine occupaid territory should be WAKE UP call for ignorant Earth people….peter czech
Why? They didn't do anything to us…oh right, it's because the Iranians are not only partially responsible for 9/11, they are now also responsible for the Beirut truck bomb in 1983…AND because mighty nuclear Israel is apparently afraid of its own insignificant shadow…
The Jewish Extremist state would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.
First, this was an intentional leak by another Israeli servant called US ambassador. The Congress is full of them anyway, not to mention the Black House.
Second, the US will not attack Iran due to cost-benefit calculations.
Third, Russia and China are not stupid. They know that after Syria and Iran they would be the next targets, if Iran is ever attacked.
One must hope that any attack on Iran will yield a brutal blowback on the Knesset, and all of its terrorist operatives. Israel is a country that will learn its limitations by the gun, and boycotts only.
They are not "pig headed." They sincerely want a war on Iran, and not just over nuclear concerns. That is just the subject around which they again rally support for war.
Iran must be crushed, in their view, because of Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Shiites who live on top of the "Sunni oil" all over the Gulf. An equivalent of the Shah must be installed. Nothing less will do. War is the only option to get what is really wanted.
Our leadership is not so foolish as to walk the brink of major war for something they don't believe is happening, US and Israeli officials all having agreed there is no nuclear weapon program to stop. Nor would they do all of this as a preventative (not preemption, but preventive). They are doing it for a reason, but not the reason they give in public.
Any serious discussion of peace always has in the background the surrender on all of these other issues. They always creep out of hiding anytime peace threatens.