Is this how the Israel-Iran war begins?
The Iranian leadership may be coming very close to forcing Israel’s hand. If Hezbollah seeks to open a second front against Israel, then Israel could find itself in a two-front war with terrorist entities. Make no mistake, Israel would achieve its objective of destroying the majority of the longest-range and most lethal missiles supplied to Hamas and Hezbollah by Iran, Syria, and perhaps even North Korea.
This might reduce the costs to Israel of undertaking a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. After all, if Hamas and Hezbollah are temporarily neutered and if the Israeli government concludes that the elements of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who would have command and control over any Iranian nuclear arsenal would pose an existential threat, then the Israelis may decide that their window of opportunity would never be so favorable as the present. After all, Iran’s air defense is only going to get more sophisticated with time, and its missile program is advancing steadily, and so time is otherwise not on Israel’s side.









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I think they are cleaning up their flanks first, yes.
Akzed on November 20, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Jeez, who is Obama going to support? He just loves Israel.
Oil Can on November 20, 2012 at 4:50 PM
FFS America, can we please avoid sending our troops into another war in MENA? Let The Juice burn it down, lest we exhaust our remaining credit installing a welfare “democracy” in Iran.
WeekendAtBernankes on November 20, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Good thing we ignored that Green Revolution in Iran back in 2009, while later helping the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt.
Wait, we do want Israel destroyed, right?
JeremiahJohnson on November 20, 2012 at 4:57 PM