Which is more alarming?
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions; his flouting of the recent unanimous UN Security Council resolution to stop his march toward acquiring nuclear weapons; his repeated vows to wipe Israel off the map and his various threats to the US, including at least one to achieve "a world without America"?;
- Israel's possible plans to defend itself and eliminate Iran's nuclear program?
If you're NBC, the choice is clear: the answer is #2. Consider the editorializing that crept in the news item NBC's Amy Rohbach "news" item on this morning's "Today."
"An alarming report in a British newspaper says Israel is plotting a nuclear attack on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities. Now, the report cannot be independently confirmed. In response, Iran's foreign minister today called Israel 'the main menace to global peace and promises to retaliate if attacked.'"
View video here.
Granted, the possible use of nuclear weapons, even the small, tactical ones described in the Times [UK] article, could seriously raise the international stakes. But while NBC views Israel's possible use of nuclear weapons as "alarming," it blithely passes along Iran's Iran's vow to retaliate and its branding of Israel as the world's biggest "menace."
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If Iran has it's way, Israel
January 7, 2007 - 09:10 ET by sublight68If Iran has it's way, Israel will end up a smoking crater. And the MSM response will be that Israel was at fault for not agreeing to cease existing.
I hope this report really d
January 7, 2007 - 09:12 ET by Jack BauerI hope this report really does ALARM, say, the Europissants to start taking seriously the prospect of an nuked up Iran.
(Which I suspect is why the 'leak' took place in the first place.)
But I doubt it. Europe has always had a high tolerance for dead Jews. Dead Israelis, too.
Maybe Lenin was half-right. The semi-capitalistic Europeans would sell their enemies rope used to hang them.
Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex
Gosh, what's new. They ar
January 7, 2007 - 09:26 ET by JerryGosh, what's new. They are tolerant and understanding of terrorist attacks against the United States but are alarmed by our war on terror. Of course the Bible talks of these times, when the world will be claiming that good is bad and bad is good.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
I have sadly said since 9/11 that we'll see nukes before its don
January 7, 2007 - 09:33 ET by acaiguanaI have sadly said since 9/11 that we'll see nukes before its done
And if this prediction turns out to be true, why didn't we just jump over to that option in Afghanistan to start? It is all these cave men understand on their ponies and their rifles in the air.
We are fighting a mentality that goes to the 8th Century and hasn't progressed one inch since that time. It is anti-progress, anti-technology, anti-West, anti-religous freedom, anti-capitalistic, tribal in nature and primitive at best. At worst it is a sick society built upon enslavement and tyranny over the minds of men.
Regardless of the 'religous' nature of its mask, this foul breath of evil across the land is to be taken seriously and not lightly pushed aside as an 'event' of radical minority religous factions in an otherwise enlightened world. It is insidious.
The Islamic facist elements intend to rule the world. They intend to reduce the West to rubble and prove their superior ideology by conquest.
We, in the West, cannot fathom this type of motive. So, we excuse it in the guise of intellectual enlightenment. That will prove to be fatal if not met head on. George Bush may not be the savior of the Western world or the best or brightest President of the United States that we have ever elected. But he is not afraid of these people.
Whether one attributes his motive to his religion or to his principles as a Western man one cannot fault his resolve. He is unpopular because he pushes the reality of this threat into our faces. So be it.
ACA
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Acaiguana says: "Which city is next?"
ACA,Well stated. I don't care
January 8, 2007 - 05:01 ET by Indiana JoeACA,
Well stated. I don't care how "primitive" these people are, give them an RPG and show them which bit to press, and they are a menace. As long as they were just riding their horses and shooting at each other, well, that's up to them. But when they start shooting at US, the time for "tolerance" and "understanding" is at an end.
Enlightenment and intellectual exercises will never keep the barbarians from the gate. Those who don't understand that just need ask the Romans.
IJ
First of all whomever leaked
January 7, 2007 - 12:35 ET by happyuscitizenFirst of all whomever leaked what appears to be firm battleplans to the press, should be locked up tried, and dispensed with most judiciously. Probably someone in the Knesset who believes in appeasement.....umm peace, at all costs, which in turn will bring to the people of Israel the modern day version of the ovens of Auschwitz.
Last year was the first year since the Holocaust the population of Jews in Israel surpassed the number of Jews in the second largest concentration of a Jewish population, which is located in the United States, after being on the precipice of extinction just sixty years ago. Think about that, it is an amazing acomplishment. Israel has not been perfect nor has any other sovereign state when pursuin gtheir own interests, primarily survival in the case of th eJewish people. I am not a Jew, however those in Israel are constantly in a state of war against those who would drive them into the sea, and we here in the US should pay attention because we too face the same type of enemy.
Where I have a problem with all of this is not Israel planning pre-emptive strikes, but instead the appeasers of the Western world, and other nations lambasting Israel while Ahmedinajad and other 'humans' advocate irradicating the Jewish people from the land of Israel and drown them all in the Mediterranean.
Meanwhile the press slams Israel for wanting to survive, kind of shoots a whole in the theory that the Jews run the media along with other conspiracy theories doesn't it?
Bottom line Israel knows who and why those whom want to kill them and should be applauded for their foresight, not like our country after 9/11, running to Barnes & Noble buying books to find out what America did to provoke poor old Osama and his crew.
Again, Israeli troops have the guts to follow through along with the political will, our troops do to, but seriously do you think there is really the political will in DC to do the same?
Nah, even with death on the horizon our pols don't want to upset the self appointed fourth branch of the government, aka MSM, that might upset them and then maybe they would report the stuff they have been ignoring for so long like I don't know shady land transactions in Nevada and other such oversights.
"I'm just a big fat hairy American Winning Machine!" - Ricky Bobby
Let's not be silly here. Is
January 7, 2007 - 13:24 ET by UnsaneLet's not be silly here. Israel started this whole thing by having the audacity to exist as a nation. If they would just do the whole world a favor and drown themselves in the Med and otherwise go away, the entire Middle East will instantaneously become a rose garden.
(extreme sarcasm off)
Why do I feel quite comfortable with the idea of Israel having nuclear weapons, while cringing over the thought of Iran having one? Oh, that's right. Israel is a parliamentary democracy, while Iran is a democracy ON PAPER only and functionally a theocracy. Never mind.
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
I blame Drudge for this. . .W
January 7, 2007 - 17:56 ET by tracheostomyI blame Drudge for this. . .
When I clicked on his huge "nuclear" headline, I had to read further than halfway down the article to find out that these are not ICBMs we're talking about, rather Israel is considering using "bunker busters" with 1/15th the destructive capacity of the Hiroshima bomb. Some nuke.
Hey, wait! Didn't we use those same weapons in Afghanistan???
-PJ
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Pretty little Amy just doing
January 7, 2007 - 17:58 ET by bigtimerPretty little Amy just doing her pretty little job...
I get so sick of the leftist media agenda...they are so abundantly crystal clear!
When we go after Afghanistan, they say Iraq, when we go after Iraq they say North Korea, when it isn't North Korea, they say Iran....nothing will ever be good enough for these enemies within as long as it is President with and 'R' after his name that they detest with all their might...plus he has the cajones to really give a rats a$$ about our protection here and elsewhere, btw, as far as I am concerned we are at war with Iran now....
Israel....NUKE 'Em...feed 'em fish....Get 'er Done!
I wished Netanyahu (sp) was the big-wig in Israel again, wished he was when the whole Lebanon, Syria debacle was going on, which was really Iran leading the way, where are the Israeli soldiers that were kidnapped at to this day, does anyone care?
"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan
Israel's threat
January 7, 2007 - 19:39 ET by JOEL714NBC is just like all the anti Israeli media in the USA. It's OK for Iran to declare that Israel must be destroyed and that they plan to do it, but for Israel to have the gall to suggest they may do something to Iran is unspeakably awful. I hope I live to see Tehran a smoking ruin and the nutcake President of Iran a toasted Persian.
The Israelis should be supported in their potential attack of Iran's nuke sites, but the USA has lost its nerve and has no leadership with courage or conviction. Our crooks in Washington only care about being re elected, and lining their pockets. The world can go to hell as long as they get theirs.
You have to admit, Israel pre
January 8, 2007 - 01:17 ET by Ten7sYou have to admit, Israel preemptively using nukes against Iran in this limited way would be a strategically unsound decision, to say the least.
As an aside, it looks like the Palestinians are nearing a civil war, with Fatah on one side and Hamas on the other. They're so ready to fight that the only thing that might keep them from each other is a war with a common enemy.
Nobody wins.
January 8, 2007 - 04:21 ET by 4arrowNobody wins.
The opposite of a good God i
January 8, 2007 - 04:40 ET by 4arrowThe opposite of a good God is an evil satan.
satan is the consumate shit disturber
It seems to me that satan is busy at work in this world today.
Of course Israel Has a Plan against Iran!
January 8, 2007 - 05:33 ET by DAHmichThe US also had a nuclear plan against Cuba. And a nuclear plan against China. And a nuclear plan against Iran.
In addition we have plans that involve covert actions, non-nuclear missile strikes and full-scale invasion. Planning is what militaries do! They all have plans against any eventuality.
It was an over-sensationalized non-story on a slow news day.
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No, not fair and balanced. M
January 8, 2007 - 08:11 ET by cunservatyveNo, not fair and balanced. More and more Democrats and liberals are becoming anti-Semites--for some strange reason. I don't understand why the left is turning against Israel.
And before someone says, "I'm not anti-Semitic...I'm anti-Zionist," my response is what's the difference? If we're going to hate the Israelis who want to maintain their country then we need to hate ourselves--our ancestors took this land from native people. Israel has more claim to their land than the U.S. does to its own.
Cunservatyve military medical guy
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