The national newspaper of record has given the green light to an attack on Iran.
Israel's last chance to attack Iran by Amos Yadlin is a grotesque plea for an American attack on Iran. If America does not attack Iran really really soon, it may be too late.
Yadlin makes the point that America is the only nation that could pull of such an attack. On paper, that may be true. Remember what a cakewalk Iraq was going to be? And our victory in Afghanistan took years to turn into defeat.
In the event that there is such an attack, several results are guaranteed.
In the first place, the Iranian people will be united as never before, behind the ayatollahs.
Secondly, the Islamic world generally will be united as never before, behind Iran.
Next, while there is no doubting the short-term outcome of such an attack, the price to be paid by anyone allied with America who lives within range of Iranian missiles will be horrendous. This includes Israel as well as most of the Gulf caliphates.
Finally, the results of America's various foreign adventures in the Islamic world over the past generation do not bode well for any action in Iran. How disabused of common sense must one be to not realize that if you can't put the run to the Talibs in Afghanistan over the course of eleven years, you don't stand a chance against Iran?
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