Speaking on CBS, former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk expressed confidence that whichever president is elected will attack Iran in 2013, saying that even though “Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon” such a war could at best be put off another six months.
Indyk also sought to downplay the recent split between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the difference “isn’t that great” and that when push comes to shove Obama will follow through on his “commitment” with the war.
This reflects yesterday’s claim by Ambassador Susan Rice that there is “no daylight” between Obama and Netanyahu, which was almost immediately refuted by the Israeli ruler, who on the exact same show went on to press US voters to elect a hypothetical candidate who was willing to set “red lines” on starting the war.
A top AIPAC official and the first director of the AIPAC-linked WINEP, Indyk has served two terms as US Ambassador to Israel and is an outspoken supporter of moving against Iran. He has been publicly claiming Iranian nuclear weapons are imminent since at least 1999.
Why do we allow dual citizens like Indyk to have any role in US politics? If Americans do not wake up and see that their Congress and Government Advisory have been infiltrated by Israeli/American dual citizens whose allegiance is to Israel, I'm afraid we will continue to do the bidding of Israel and pick up the costs in our global debt. Give me a break.
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This tells you that he might be legally a dual citizen but the truth is he is not He is a guy who wants the USA take the deaths and crippled that is war. I say let the IDF fight and I am sure our congress will be more generous with a wounded Israeli soldier than our sons or daughters.
You don't have to be a dual US/Israeli citizen. You can be just a US citizen. You don't even have to be a Jew. You need only be someone– like for example D*ck Cheney — who thinks hitching your wagon to the neocon/zionist cause is a good career move, and reconfigure your loyalties accordingly. Then, throwing America under the bus while helping Israel commit suicide by paranoid self-delusion makes perfect sense.
Treason, murder, torture, theft and of course, lying: the road to a better world. We're all still alive, so it must be working, right?
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Do you believe it, the profanity filters include "d*ck". I tried to write "D*ck" Cheney above, with the "i" in place of the asterisk, and it came out ****. I had to go back and use the sanitized version, the one with the asterisk.
You are correct. I will update to include modern profanity like "Ch-ney."
Indyk, thanks for your great news. A nuclear war is just what the world needs. If mean, killing with conventional weapons is so passe, so pedestrian.
The nuking of Japan shows how it should be done. Kill hundreds of thousands with only one bomb and destine hundreds of thousands of others to a slow death.
Yeah, under American leadership, mankind will not last much longer. The cockroaches will be happy and will prove to be the smart ones, them and the ants!
It's clear America and Israel are the most dagerous warmongering countrys on earth.Also most elected officials are loyal to Israel or $$$ supplyed by AIPAC.A start would be no more dual citizens in office and a president that puts America and peace first.Their is no democracy just a choice between who people belive is the lesser of 2 evils.SAD
I'm placing my bets on rodents.
Indyk, Likudnic, AIPAC cohort, what ELSE is he gonna say? This is much ado about very little . . . it's a non story.
And some people (i.e. antiwar liberals) still think that Obama is the lesser evil…. that Obama is not at all like George W. Bush. LOL.
I seriously doubt that any anti-war individual "libural" or not will ever think of Obama as the lesser of the two evils. That political bi-polar syndrome is what's killing you Amerikans. Along with the convenience blindness.
Is Indyk saying, "Hahaha you fools, and you can't stop us from forcing you to go to warr."
Wow. Did this guy crawl out from under a rock? Maybe he has noticed that the US is currently having its hands full and the hands are getting fuller by the day. By 2013, the hand will be so full that starting an even bigger conflagration with even less certain outcome might not immediately occur to the persons in charge.
Time to airdrop the guy in the middle of Banghazi.
Indyk is voicing israil,s view.If as he says Iran does nothave nukes,why war will be waged against Iran? Notice his words ,he is speaking as if he will be the president ,and he is deciding the war from now.What is happening with these americans!they have weapons,so these weapons shall be used,come on ,kill people,
Incredible jackass dumb to the suffering what war produces a budding war criminal together with all US presidents.
Let's strap this dope to the first nuke missile launched.
Well that will never happen but I would like to know his and his families military history. The IDF has not faced a military unit since 1973 so forgive me when I read someone was in the IDF that I believe that is mostly chatter.
Indyk was born in Australia to a Jewish family with "good" connections came to the US and was employed by the US State Department before acquiring US citizenship and becoming Ambassador to Israel. He may also be well acquainted with another Australian Rupert Murdoch. Wonder if Jason will mot delete this comment.
I feel that whenever it is a matter of life or death, and we are on the ropes economically, the qualifications to decide where the US should be going need to be in as many American hands as possible, but that we should distrust and openly challenge without fear being politically incorrect anyone presuming to tell us we must go to war. The burden of proof should be very heavy on such people with so many not-so-hidden incentives. Unfortunately, these things are decided behind closed doors and the crisis is thrust upon us. But in this case, you cannot say we have not been warned, and threatened too by those who consider Iran their enemy.
I imagine that in academia and many think tanks, the logic is that some rebalancing of is in order, because the result of the Iraq War was to put a lot of Shi'ites in power. It this kind of stupidity which kept us in the Vietnam War with the whole "domino theory." So it isn't just the needs of Israel – that can be a bit of a diversion. What we need to understand is that these things are actually a long time in covert planning for "strategic" reasons, regional issues of control. They haven't given up the regime change game, and they haven't given up their dominoes, chess sets or any other such toys.
What needs to happen now is a full blown "Pentagon Papers" expose before it is too late.
'Even though Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon…' That says it all. We must go to war, not because Iran has a nuclear weapon but because Israel insists on it.
Are they going to wait that long? Is Bibi actually going to let them?
If we're going to ever have peace in the Middle East, we can't afford to have a nation with nuclear capability be led by a lunatic. It's time for regime change in Israel.
That nucular capability is between 3 and 5 hundred illegal nucular missles and the Sampson Option.Look at the Sampson Option then tell the world what country is the real danger in the Mid East.
A vote for Obama is a vote for war with Iran.
A vote for Romney is a vote for war with Iran.
Both of these statements have been clearly true for months now. However, there are other names on the ballot. Or even in the most restricted ballot-access states, there are write-in campaigns.
Jill Stein, Green Party
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party
Rocky Anderson, Justice Party
A vote for any of these would be a vote AGAINST a war with Iran. Its up to you. Will you vote for a war with Iran, or will you vote against a war with Iran?
former ambassador to israel from israel
The State Department appoints US ambassadors to Israel who are more Israeli than Americans. Their function is not to represent the interest of the US, but the interests of Israel.
Just today, Iran revealed the launching of a new submarine. If these MoFos decide to invade Iran, they may be unpleasantly surprised by the reaction. Iran is not Iraq. This is the country that during the 10 year war with Iran financed by the US, would send hundredths of thousandths of people to line up in front of the invading tanks. It is reported than when it was all said and done, the fields were piled up sky high with bodies. The Persians are neither stupid nor cowards and they have come a long way since then. All I can say is that I hope they aim well and let Isreal feel the wrath of what they have created.
I didn't know David Letterman was an International Political Expert. Quite a talented bloke.
If a President is reelected he is in essence a lame duck and starts to be concerned how he will be treated by historians. So, assume Obama is reelected – which now appears most likely given Romney's many gaffes and what is coming out about how he really made his millions (no not as a job creator but as a job destroyer). Does Obama want to go down in history as the man who couldn't stand up to little Israel and attacked Iran at the order of an obsessed Netanyahu? Possibly starting WWIII?
I may be naive but I cannot see Obama doing this. If he truly is a man of peace, maybe, after the election, he will go back and do something to earn the Nobel Prize, which was given to him prematurely. If he puts Netanyhu in his place, I'm sure he will have the majority of Americans behind him. Even the former Mossad chief, who was on '60 Minutes' this past Sunday, has publicly broken with Bibi and said there is no need to rush to war as Iran is not close to the Bomb. He also said the Iranian leaders are rational actors who do not want war. A vote for Romney, however, appears to be a vote for immintent war.
Agree but we don't know what Obama will do he has shown himself to be worse than Bush without allowing 9/11 well president.
The mojority of American people are tired of the USA doing anything for Israel . . . . let their soldiers do the fighting and dying for once . . . As for Nut&Yahoo endorsing a candidate . . . that is not the kind of endorsment that will win you many votes.