re: #208 Iron Fist

And now Obama is President. Bush might have very well gone to war for Israel (but it would have been a conventional war). Obama will not.

And the Iranians know that. They also know (or believe at any rate) that they can “win” a limited nuclear war with Israel if they can keep America as a non-beligerant observer. Obama is already reaching out to Iran to try and close some sort of agreement. He’s already indicated (if not exactly baldly stated) that his Administration is willing to accept a nuclear armed Iran. In 100 days he has managed to allow one of our oldest, most implacable enemies to open a little light between us and Israel. A place to set the point of his chisel, if you follow. An opening of opportunity for Iran, and point of great peril for Israel and, ultimately, the United States. If we allow Iran to split us off from Israel (probably with assurances that Iran will stay out of Iraq and crack down on cross-border terrorist attacks) both nations suffer.

That doesn’t seem to bother Obama at all.

So we talking about people who are willing to send their children in as suicide bombers and willing to engage in a nuclear war and I am getting down dinged for suggesting an exit strategy?

If this were happening to you on a local level, insane neighbors who wanted to destroy you and your children, wouldn’t you move even though you had legal title to your house and had lived their longer than your neighbors, etc. ? Wouldn’t you just get the best price you could on your house and get out of there?

Twenty years ago, a man who lived in South Africa and couldn’t leave with his money, used the money to build a fabulous sailboat. Then he sailed the boat to the USA. He sold the boat in California to my friend.