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In reply to the discussion: Israeli PM makes appeal to US voters: Elect president willing to draw ‘red line’ with Iran [View all]doxyluv13
(247 posts)What is on the other side of a "red line" beside war? Anything? Netanyahu want the U.S. to agree in advance to go to war, then he'll tell us what the "red line" is. Also, any violation of the "red line" is apt to be determined by intelligence which is debatable and very prone to falsification and manipulation.
The idea that Netanyahu wants Americans to die fighting Iran for Israel boils down to this. Israel can't set back the Iranian program very much by itself, so it needs the U.S. military to carry some of the burden which will certainly result in casualties. Also, fact Israeli warplanes would have to cross Iraqi airspace (which the U.S. controls) to attack Iran, so we'll surely be in it, like it or not.
If you really want Iran to turn away from nukes, encourage Israel to stop threatening war on it. Beside being criminal, Israeli threats of war are pushing Iran toward thinking they need the bomb for self-preservation against an increasing desperate and irrational, and hyper-powerful, Israel. Have you forgotten that the Shah's pile of yellow cake had not moved in decades before GW Bush began his policy of Middle East Regime change? to stop threatening war on it. Beside being criminal, Israeli threats of war are pushing Iran toward thinking they need the bomb for self-preservation against an increasing desperate and irrational, and hyper-powerful, Israel. Have you forgotten that the Shah's pile of yellow cake had not moved in decades before GW Bush began his policy of Middle East Regime change?