Not a NeoCon Republican, huh?

We can't attack now, we need time to make up an excuse, before starting another proxy war...

Obama told China: I can't stop Israel strike on Iran indefinitely

"U.S. President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much longer, senior officials in Jerusalem told Haaretz."

"They said Obama warned President Hu Jintao during the American's visit to Beijing a month ago as part of the U.S. attempt to convince the Chinese to support strict sanctions on Tehran if it does not accept Western proposals for its nuclear program. "

"The Israeli officials, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the United States had informed Israel on Obama's meetings in Beijing on Iran. They said Obama made it clear to Hu that at some point the United States would no longer be able to prevent Israel from acting as it saw fit in response to the perceived Iranian threat. "

Obama told China: I can't stop Israel strike on Iran indefinitely - Haaretz - Israel News

The United States is not "preventing" Israel from acting as it sees fit. Israel, as a sovereign nation, acts as it sees fit just as other sovereign nations do.
For the moment, Israel "sees fit" to not take military action, but that could change, and the United States can't "prevent" that. The most the United States could do is to discourage such behavior, but it can not, in the final analysis, "prevent" it.

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its trying though

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Yeah! And why would we want to discourage Israel in the first place? Why do we even need to intervene in such matters? I bet, if we let Israel and Iran do their thing, we could possibly eliminate two birds without having to throw a single stone! We need to break away from our alliance with Israel! It hasn't done us one bit of good in my opinion!

kept Hussein at bay for quite a while. AND they piss off muslims. thats worth at least some style points !

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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Considering such things as the above, Obama is foolish to think that China is going to do us any favors in regards to Iran.

Obama perhaps with more foolishness thinks by giving financial aid to Israel he can tell Israel what to do and what not to do.

The U.S. would "condemn" the Israeli strike, and Iran would not retaliate. it would be similar to the Iraq strike, but this time the Arabs will help Israel.

Whats making me wonder, why is China refusing to lose their ties with Iran. Russia and Nkorea seem they are ditching Iran, but not China. If its oil, then there is a U.S.-Saudi deal on the table for China, and china seems to decline. I wonder whats their interests with Iran? or is it just the "chinese ego"?

From the article

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Not only the U.S. but many other nations publicly would do that, but privately many would approve of it knowing that Israel did the whole world a big favor, which indeed it would be.

agree. Arab states have to give IDF airspace clearance for Iran strike, too.

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Even I "could" do that if I were Pres. He "can" he just won't !

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I guarantee that WHEN Israel gets ready to strike Iran the last thing that they're going to be concerned about is whether or not the arab's GIVE them clearance. These are the same Israeli's that during the first gulf war had IAF F-16I's on the runways, loaded with nuclear ordnance, and told Bush that if 1 more SCUD entered Israeli airspace that Baghdad would become a glowing afterthought on the maps of future history books. Needless to say, no more SCUDS entered Israeli airspace!

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You are quite right however what if "in our perceived interests" we indicated we would attack Israel, Drop our grants and giveaways and impose sanctions. That failing politically and with actions by them continuing that would further the possibilities of confllicts using our forces may cause insurgent type attacks against Jews here in the U.S.A. Could be time for the "hobbles"

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Israel has harpoon missiles capable of carrying a nuclear payload and they also have 3 Dolphin class submarines capable of launching those missiles, 1 of which is thought to patrol the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. So they probably have the capability to make devastating strikes in Iran without flying over the airspace of any Arab countries.

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Hello, this never happened!

The small missiles those things fire would do anything but make adevastating strike on Iran, unless they are armed with nuclear warheads-and israel won't dare make such a strike for fear that Iran would get it's hands on it's own devise, now or in the future, and retaliate.

The idea is that Israel would have to fly F-15s loaded with fuel and bombs over Arab states or Turkey. The turkey route is too long so they would run out of fuel so that leaves attacking over Iraq-which would draw the US into the conflict because the US dominates that airspace and would have had to give them permission to overfly; In that case Iran will strike US bases in Iraq with missiles as part of the retaliation. All that for a strike that probably won't achive much and will likly get UN Inspectors thrown out with the nuclear work going underground. bad option now as in the last 10 years.

but that would be illegal, and thats a different story.

Yes. they could nuke Iran instead. if they are planning to send those missiles, then why is the IDF airspace have been training for this strike in Turkey and Egypt? the actuall strike would be through Arab states, if not, why would the IDF airspace train for the iran strike as if they're going through Arab states?
Saudi declined this report, like when they declined many reports before such as the Israel Iraq strike report.

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