Comments on: US to Israel: “You’re on Your Own” http://mistermoleman.com/2009/05/01/us-to-israel-youre-on-your-own/ Thoughts on politics, unions, and this and that Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:09:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mister Moleman http://mistermoleman.com/2009/05/01/us-to-israel-youre-on-your-own/#comment-106 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:07:28 +0000 http://mistermoleman.com/?p=325#comment-106 Your concerns are entirely appropriate, The question is, what does one do when faced with a job that needs doing and inadequate ability to do it?

If we are pleased to be impotent and to have few options, we will embrace the situation and “learn to live with the Iranian bomb”. This is the appeaser’s answer and apparently Obama’s.

The other alternative is to do what you can while increasing your ability to do more. This might mean a military build-up, including an acccelerated missile defense system, while simultaneously acting to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and therefore at least delaying their progress until more might be done.

]]> By: Sully http://mistermoleman.com/2009/05/01/us-to-israel-youre-on-your-own/#comment-102 Mon, 11 May 2009 17:39:37 +0000 http://mistermoleman.com/?p=325#comment-102 I’ve been a hawk for a long time; but the Iran problem appears more than merely hard. They seem very determined; which means it would take a very long and periodically renewed bombing program or else an actual occupation to push their program back very far. Meanwhile the start of such a program might push Pakistan over the edge and result in a major needed campaign there.

I wonder if we have the forces to do both of those plus handle the likely reactions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

for what it’s worth I think George Bush’s biggest mistake was in failing to oversee a significant buildup after 9/11. The couple of hundred thousand special forces he could have easily recruited and trained and the air wings and or carrier groups he could have easily built would be a big help around about now.

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