Who Is Threatening Who?

Iran is an existential threat to the State of Israel. It is no wonder that it is imperative for Israeli leaders to drum up support here in the States.

If Israel is threatening Iran, it is because the Iranians have repeatedly called for the annihilation of the State of Israel. Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be wiped off the map. He denies the holocaust ever happened.

The Iranians are making moves to become the strong power in the Middle East today and their behavior smacks of Islamic Fascism completely. They are a threat to the stability of the Middle East as long as they push for nuclear power. There can be no doubt that with nuclear power in their hands they will, just as North Korea has done, advance until they have nuclear weapons.

With the tremendous hatred of Israel that Islam holds, there is no doubt, that in the hands of madmen and extremists...nuclear weapons of some sort whether conventional or "suitcase" bombs etc. would make their way past Israel's borders...and Ahmadinejad's dream of genocide would come to pass.

It is not hysteria to want to survive. Benjamin Netanyahu was indeed, correct in his assessment.

Iran has made nothing but verbal threats. At this stage of the game, they have little to show and a lot to bluff with. You cannot use the doctrine of preemptive attack to solve every problem - that would lead to everyone eventually ganging up against the USA and launching a full out attack.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200611/INT20061117b.html You can see everyone wants to shut down the dialogue; they want war. As it stands, the Iraq war is about to tip over $502 billion, we are under record deficits, and foreigners aren't buying t-bills like they used to.

We've already helped to undermine Lebanon, Iraq is in shambles, our military is seriously over-extended and burned out, recruiters can't get new heads in and there's been talk for awhile about reinstating the draft.

Let's think about this for a minute as we're heading for a cash crunch. The dollar's been falling in value for a few years, which doesn't make for the USA to be a great t-bill opportunity to foreign investors. Should the dollar continue to slip, t-bills will be cashed out. What would happen if all those bills were called in tomorrow? Americans would have to come up with thousands of dollars they don't have to pay the piper.

I say let's not add to the financial and political instability. It's time to stop letting wild rhetoric determine this country's course.

As for the argument, "should we stand by and let them do something before we act?" The country always survived prior wars when we were first attacked. Preemptive is only a recent policy.