Tuesday August 26, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

The big news will be yesterday's kick-off of the Democratic Convention and the Michelle Obama speech.
Neither was stellar and that's a shame.

What makes it even more of a shame is that the big news should be the comments made yesterday by the husband of Michelle Obama.
Barack Obama said that part of his Iran strategy "as president will be to tighten the screws on Iran diplomatically." And: "To get sanctions in place."
Obama continued to say that the US must act before "Israel feels that its back is up against the wall."
These hugely significant comments will be overshadowed by the superficial party in Denver.

Obama came away from his trip to Israel thinking that Israel is preparing to bomb Iran.
He is correct, the operative word being preparing..
Israel is making plans and those plans will be in place and ready when and if Iran reaches their point of no return.

But at this stage in his career Obama should be able to distinguish between developing defense scenarios and contingences and actual policy and planning.
I have not yet seen him develop that skill.

Israel is developing and thinking and training for the worst scenario but that does not mean that Israel is trigger happy.

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