Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:01:23 PM
Left unmentioned is the fact that even if Israel does know where
every last nuke site in Iran is and somehow manages to put a bomb on
the target, there’s no guarantee that any major damage will be done.
Do note the contradiction, though, between the idea that attacking Iran
is futile because at least part of their nuclear infrastructure is
secret and the idea that we don’t need to act now because western intel
assures us they’re still years away from having a bomb. Both are
staples of dovish arguments, which makes no sense. Either you think we
know the extent of Iran’s program and can time our response accordingly
or you don’t think we know, in which case we have to err on the side of
caution by assuming the worst and acting sooner. How can anti-war types
maintain both positions simultaneously? Simple — because they’re
willing to let Iran have the bomb in order to avoid another war. That’s
been their position all along but they can’t push it in those terms or
else they’ll be seen, rightly, as weak and it’ll wreck the Democrats’
chances yet again. Unfortunately for them, Israel isn’t as willing, so
someone had really better start pressing Obama and McCain to hash out
their contingency plans for the aftermath of an IAF attack. The
Democratic Party might be ready to gamble on a nuclear-armed Iran
behaving like a Cold War rational actor, but Kadima surely is not.