Hurry and attack Iran so Israel doesn't have to
Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward WarNobody in their right mind wants Iran to develop a nuclear bomb. I'm sure other people in that region aren't wild about the couple of hundred Israel possesses either.
The problem, however, is that the [Obama] administration isn't taking the bait, and one has to wonder why. Perhaps it thinks its diplomacy will work, or that it has the luxury of time ... And the longer the U.S. delays playing hardball with Iran, the sooner Israel is likely to strike.
But we're the United States and we don't run our foreign policy based on Israel's needs. Well we actually do in the Middle East but we shouldn't. Hopefully that's changing.
And what's the hurry? It wasn't even three weeks ago that the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Iran "has slowed production of enriched uranium and agreed to tighter monitoring of its enrichment plant".
The IAEA's record on these matters is much better than ours and maybe even Israel's (except in their minds of course) so I think we should probably hold off on attacking Iran for right now. We are after all a little busy.
But then again, the Wall Street Journal and its author, Bret Stephens don't care about our timetable. They have other 'national' interests and friends to worry about.
