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Michael Hirsh

What Will Israel Do?

A unilateral military strike against Iran is much more likely following the latest intel report about Tehran's nuke program.

 
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  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/01/2008 3:05:45 PM

    Comment: How the times have changed. In 2007,Hirsh held the NIE up as sacred writ in castigating the president[undoubtedly whipped on by Seymour Hershs certainty that the US was to ''invade Iran by September of this year''[2006],for being Wrong On Iran.
    Yet the NIE failed to keep track with what El Baradeis IAEA was coming up with. ''It could be two years before Iran has a nuclear weapon. Perhaps less'',the head of the IAEA observed in May of this year,making sure that the international community,particularly the Russians and Chinese,were being assured that the IAEA was hitting Iranian -made stone walls in trying to find out more about its enrichment program. I was left with few doubts that the 2007 NIE was a failure when it was first released,and I am largely vindicated in this belief by the sheer numbers of nations including the normally surly Russians and Chinese that Iran is indeed,seeking nuclear weapons,although there is disagreement over whether or not this is a bad thing,keeping their UN ambassadors veto-hands at the ready,should things even greater than sanctions appear on the horizon. A paranoid Hersh lost no time in this weeks NEW YORKER,again asserting through his usual ''anonymous sources'',that the Bush adminstration was again dusting off the old 2006 attack plan [which turned out to be a figment of Hershs imagination],to ''attack Iran before the end of his presidency''. Israel,justifiably,is upset in that the failures of the American intel community keep making things more dangerous,leading former MOSSAD officials to conclude that they ''are not getting anything right'',in what is appearing to be the foreign intelligence comparison to baseball,where a weary Casey Stengel,then manager of the 1962 Mets,asked of them, ''Can't anyone play this game''? As it now stands,Iran in the 5th is leading with at least two runs.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 06/30/2008 1:46:13 AM

    Comment: All I know is that whomever ends up being our next US President they better have bringing all our nations in the world together somehow (United Nations) as Bush has totally alienated us as a country over the last 8 years. With the way this world is today and talk of nuclear development in e.g. IRAN should be engaged in working with the UN moving forward to address the whole nulcear issue. I think strengthening our ties with all nations (mending wounds that our current cowboy prez has made) will be so important going into the next Presidency, as well as troop withdrawal in a safe and responsible manner and getting us out of this economical mess we are currently in and continue to spiral downward. God Bless America.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/29/2008 7:46:29 PM

    Comment: bomb bomb bomb iran !!! drop it like its hot and hit the right spot no nukes for iran bomb iran hell yeah bomb iran !!! we mean nothing to iran neither does israel !!

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