“What
if Israel bombed Iran? The view from Washington.
By ,
President
Obama is enjoying a quiet dinner with Michelle, Sasha and Malia at the White
House residence on a Thursday evening in October when he gets the call…”
What if Israel bombed
Iran? The view from Tehran.”
By ,
Hamid
has been awake since midnight, when Israeli bombs struck the Tehran Nuclear
Research Center in nearby Amirabad. The boom reverberated throughout the city
nearby, sending plumes of smoke into the night. Sirens punctuated the hours
till the gray-pink dawn. With the Internet down, Hamid crouches before Radio
Tehran, which reports that key nuclear sites at Arak, Natanz and Isfahan have also been hit.
If Israel bombed Iran,
what would life in Tel Aviv be like?
,
“Our
pilots,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims on the Channel 2 TV news,
“carried out their difficult and dangerous task for the sake of the state of
Israel. They have struck several Iranian nuclear facilities and have returned
safely.”
Lessons from an
Iranian war game
By ,
“…The unsolved puzzle for the U.S. side was how to stop the
conflict, once it started. The Iranians, for their part, had decided to bleed
the United States in a protracted struggle. The lesson of the exercise,
concluded Pollack, is that “small miscalculations are magnified very quickly.”
Cassi Creek: It is worth the time reading these articles in their entirety.
This is all
conjecture but based upon the writings of people who practice such conjecture
for a living. The suppositions of people
who reside in D.C., Tel Aviv, and even Teheran bring significant weight to the
calculations of death and destruction that these articles predict.
The Iranian
calculations are made more complex by the religious nature of their government
and the same division of their military.
Israel is hampered by their Haradim and their refusal to bear arms as
part of the IDF despite the willingness of some Haradim to initiate civil disruption
using funds sent from U.S. Citizens who
want to bring about a Greater Israel (biblical Israel)
The U.S. presence
is also made more difficult by the justifiable military alliance with Israel
and the pressure exerted by Christians eager to bring about the mythical battle
of Meggido that will initiate their end of days scenario.
Failure of abilities
to communicate between the hostile factions is the most dangerous problem in the
projected conflict. Gaming these
conflicts out so that our military has valid operating assumptions and hard guidelines may be the
most critical thing our armed forces and the White House are engaged in
doing.
Yom Kippur is
a date I selected for historical reasons.
I’m hopeful
that this particular war will not begin.
We need to avoid the worldwide economic disruption that Iran could bring
about. I don’t want to see the loss of
life that will take place in Israel, in the U.S., and in any other locations that
might become strike points where Iranian-funded terrorists might target
Americans.
I am greatly
concerned that a GOP/teavangelist victory in November would lead to the certainly
of a war with Iran. There is too great a
chance of profiteering companies such as Halliburton will pressure Romney and
Ryan into another commercially selected war such as Iraq. This is to be avoided despite the pressure
being brought to bear by Romney-Ryan and the GOP/teavangelists.
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