Looks to me as though the Obamanistas are preparing to throw Israel under the bus.

Bad news time: it’s not just the Obama-stricken. There is a growing section of America that is very ready to throw the beleaguered nation of Israel not just under the bus but out to the wolves.

Spend a few minutes on a popular left-leaning news site like Reddit – if you can stand it – and take careful note of the comments posted to articles that are anti-Israel and/or warning of the impending Islamic threat in general. (Somewhat easier on sites with an upvote/downvote system) Be prepared to be shocked and horrified.

This is our best option? This is how we defend our allies? This is Smart Power?

For better or worse, this is the new face of America…feckless country of lowered expectations.

The Iranians know Obama is soft and Gates knows the Iranians know Obama is soft.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind if the Israelis blew Iran’s nuke facilities clear to Mars, along with Akmedinnadinnerjacket.

As for Gates, he needs to resign and get as far away from this loser administration as he can.

-Dave

Watch Iran nuke Israel and then Obama claims there was nothing he could do…
PIF

The cabal in the white house intends to let nuclear proliferation happen.

That way, the world will be safer.

Once the first and second waves are finished.

I believe they will use one against Israel as soon as they have one available. They will not wait and play a game of nuclear brinksmanship with Israel, because they know Israel will pre-emptively strike.

The Iranian nuclear option is a dead end. They will use it. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.

One thing it’s always important to do is recognize what one has effectively done, regardless of what one intended. Gates has effectively signalled that we don’t intend to do anything, by stating that a military option would not work. (Some would, some wouldn’t, is the point I make at my blog. There’s more than one option.)

Iran might be confused if this public confession by our SECDEF were not simply the culmination of a weak-hand policy pursued for at least the last four years. But, in fact, it is such a culmination — and Iran has no reason to be confused. Of course Gates isn’t trying to set Iran up to be unwary about a surprise blow. He is, as CKM outlines, setting the Obama administration up to deal with the domestic political consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran.

This slow-motion train wreck will not start or end with Iran attacking Israel. Nuclear deterrence will work much better against us than it will against Iran. The Middle East, and the entire world, is in for a long session on a hot skillet.

Gates works for the Obama administration now – and Obama wouldn’t allow this kind of “signal” to be sent deliberately.

I know that everyone was glad that Gates stayed on in DoD after Obama was elected – but I’ve never been a fan of that kind of thing. Gates, under Bush – was empowered to do great things. Under Obama – he will be restrained from doing great things. This is not the way a good soldier should end a stint as SecDef – and this was predictable.

He should have turned Obama down. Now, he’ll either have to oversea the dismantling of the military might and will of the world’s greatest superpower – or he will have to resign.

He obviously can’t pickup the phone and call the Israelis to say it. Instead, this is exactly-EXACTLY the kind of winkwinknudgenudge that Israel needs from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the US to get clearance for their strike.

Gates said that Iran would risk creating a nuclear arms race in the region that would leave it less secure. That seems to imply that Iranian rivals would obtain better weapons than Iran would have. Where might they get them?

I hate to think the alternative could be true.