Iran Has the Bomb - Now What?

Israel to Bush - Attack Iran Or we Must.

Israel’s message to President Bush was either attack Iran or we will. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen will hear the same simple message while he’s in Israel this week — : If you don’t, we have to - and will before the U. S. administration changes.

Frankly Israel’s fears an Obama Presidency could mean an Israeli-US rift, and that thinks Belgium born and International reporter for Newsmax Arnaud de Borchgrave could mean a bigger calamity than the 1956 Suez Canal crisis and the Soviet’s savage reconquest of Hungary. Those punctuated the earliest chapter in the Cold War moving the doomsday clock to a minute before midnight.

Simply put a conflagration in the Middle East that could spread across the world could be triggered by the outcome of America’s November Presidential election.

First, even if he wants to Bush can’t attack Iran before the November elections because it would be a political catastrophe domestically, and Israel knows that.

Second, Israel believes - I think knows - Iran is tantalizingly close to or already has a nuclear weapon. After all Iran has had 23-years since Pakistan’s nuclear midwife A. Q. Khan handed over a-bomb plans I agree with Arnaud that it would be a miracle if Iran doesn’t have at least one city busting nuke. But, using one A-bomb while useful for terror and wrecking Israel only ensures Iran ’s utter destruction.

Third, there is a chance the U. S. will not vote itself into oblivion and could elect an experienced moderate in the person of John McCain who has said “There is only one thing worse than bombing Iran, and that is an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Borchgrave says Israel is convinced it is living an existential crisis and that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s extremist threats to snuff out Zionism could destroy the Jewish state with one city-busting weapon in the nose cone of an Iranian missile. Obama says he will go to Iraq and Afghanistan but it will be nothing but a political press opportunity generating platitudes, and notable in its circumventing Israel.

U. S. and European diplomats say there is leeway for diplomacy coupled with increased sanctions pressure. Also says Arnaud verbal bomb-thrower Ahmadinejad does not control Iran’s nuclear establishment, which is in the hands of Supreme Religious Leader Ali Khamenei. Also encouraging is that one of Ahmadinejad’s bitter political opponents, former chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, was recently elected to the powerful position of speaker of parliament and may unseat Ahmadinejad in 2009 elections.

Depending on an Iranian election and diplomacy as a last chance is twitchy at best. What’s excruciatingly clear is the whole game turns on what happens in America’s November election and relies on respecting the admonishment that diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you find a big rock. But, you must have the big rock.