Israel has never acted in America’s best interests. Ever. Israel acts in Israel’s interest alone. Too bad we can’t learn from them because in the case of an action by Israel against Iran, the consequences could be dire for Americans.
WASHINGTON — A classified war simulation exercise held this month to assess the American military’s capabilities to respond to an Israeli attack on Iran forecast that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead, according to American officials.
The two-week war game, called “Internal Look,” played out a narrative in which the United States found it was pulled into the conflict after Iranian missiles struck a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf, killing about 200 Americans, according to officials with knowledge of the exercise. The United States then retaliated by launching its own strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The initial Israeli attack was assessed to have set back the Iranian nuclear program by roughly a year, and the subsequent American strikes did not slow the Iranian nuclear program by more than an additional two years. However, other Pentagon planners have said that America’s arsenal of long-range bombers, refueling aircraft and precision missiles could do far more damage to the Iranian nuclear program — if President Obama were to decide on a full-scale retaliation.
In the end, the war game reinforced to military officials the unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of a strike by Israel, and a counterstrike by Iran, the officials said.
Remind me again why we support Israel with unquestioning fidelity? I keep forgetting.
Israel has been our only allie in the Middle East that we can count on. You can talk all of the anti-Semite trash you want but this country could never depend on any Palestinian country the way we have Israel
Wow, first comment out of the gate plays the fallacious “anti-semite” card. That was faster than I expected.
I suppose these folks are “anti-semites” too. I’ll let you in on a little secret: You can be anti-Israel without being an anti-semite. You can be anti-Zionism without being an anti-semite.
Here’s another little secret. Palestinians are Semites too. So if you’re anti-Palestinian, you’re an anti-Semite.
And how, precisely, can we “count on Israel?” What exactly has Israel done for us? When have they come to our aid, ever? Israel helps nobody but Israel, so tell me again why they’re our “friends?”