In a speech at Haifa University, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro insisted that despite diplomatic progress made in recent weeks, the United States retains the option of attacking Iran militarily.
While Shapiro reiterated US promises not to reach a “bad deal,” his speech appeared aimed at convincing Israelis that the prospect of no deal, and a war instead, was still realistic.
That’s of course in keeping with the position of the Netanyahu government, which has opposed any diplomacy with Iran and is treating the concept of a “bad deal” as the same as any deal at all.
But other Israelis don’t appear nearly so on board with war for war’s sake, and attempts to play up US bellicosity in tandem with diplomatic talks, indeed on the same day the latest round of talks began, is raising questions about the Obama Administration’s sincerity in either position.
Military options is always on the table…..Why? I hope when they decide to attack Iran the reason is spelled out to the American people.
They will give us a 'bogus' reason which the MSM will parrot and trumpet 'patriotically'.
What the US needs in their relationship with Israel is to appoint an anti-Zionist as the Ambassador to Israel – someone who won't automatically agree with and actively advocate Israeli calls for wars they expect the US to fight for them.
What is needed is to subject Israel to exactly the same embargo's and sanctions that Iran is subjected to until Israel gives up its nuclear weapons and enrichment activity! It also needs to arrest any US politician who seems to think otherwise for giving support to a terrorist organization, Israel commits acts of terror on civilians on a daily basis in a country that is not their own!
In any event, hopefully retaliation against Israel is also an option for Iran and her allies.
"attempts to play up US bellicosity in tandem with diplomatic talks, indeed on the same day the latest round of talks began, is raising questions about the Obama Administration’s sincerity in either position."
The laughably obvious pro-Israel, pro-war, pro-Jewish anti-Arab mainstream media has its own agenda. They fool only morons with their think-tank pundits and corporate // military shills…it is called Manufacturing Consent, they did the same thing in the run-up to the Iraq war.
I can imagine Dan Shapiro in Haifa: "…so the Israeli people need not concern themselves with the possibility of a tragic and pointless peace and prosperity. We are doing everything possible to ensure that you will be incinerated in your beds, your children will choke on poison gas, and the survivors will become an impoverished, homeless people in an irradiated desert, as we fight war after glorious war forever and ever…."
Quite a sales pitch. Must be an ex-furniture salesman, or something.
Iran retains the right to retaliate as deemed necessary…..
And they have certainly had to do so before, in the 1980s, when the Axis of Evil comprised of USA (fresh off spreading 20 million gallons of weaponized chemicals over Vietnam), several European powers, and Saddam Hussein went on a chemical massacre rampage through the region. Iran sacrificed up to 2 million of its citizens, 5% of its population, to stop this. This criminal attack by the USA/Europe/Iraq killed more Iranians than US citizens killed in WW2, in which the US sacrificed a third of one percent of its population, and also killed hundreds of thousands of Kurds.
"the United States retains the option of attacking Iran militarily."
Why does this have to be stated? Does anyone think the US voluntarily forfeits the "right" to illegally attack anyone, anywhere? It would never do that. And even if it did, it would simply revoke the forfeiture at any time, or just break it.
It's like with assassination: the US, through 11 presidencies, assassinated or tried to assassinate over 50 prominent political leaders. In between doing so, the US would sometimes say "We now disapprove of political assassinations." Then when it wanted to assassinate someone else, it would just cancel the law, or ignore it.
And now that Obama is in office, the number of assassinations has increased exponentially. It's in the hundreds. Illegal execution of suspects is a US Democratic signature policy.
As long as the US is in power and run by a plutocracy, this will remain the MO. It the US were democratized, we could end this.
.00001% of the world population 95% of the worlds problems/troublemakers.