The Iranians must be laughing all the way to the bomb.
Israel and the United States, instead of working shoulder-to-shoulder to thwart Tehran’s nuclear drive, with the clearest understandings on what would necessitate a resort to the last option of a military strike, are diverting their focus to each other’s ostensible failings.
The regime in Tehran is territorially rapacious and ideologically extreme. Quite apart from bidding for a bomb, it is guilty of the relentless mistreatment of its own people and of inciting genocide against Israel. However, rather than concentrating on exposing Iran’s reprehensible actions to international scrutiny, and thereby bolstering support for whatever action may be necessary to curb the regime’s nuclear ambitions, the American and Israeli leaderships currently spend their days trading mutual recriminations. Rather than discrediting Iran, they are discrediting each other.
The American low came two weeks ago, when the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, pronounced that he would not wish to be “complicit” in an Israeli resort to force against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Dempsey could have used neutral language to indicate his dismay at talk of an Israeli military intervention that he regards as unwarranted. He could have said he would not want to be “part” of such an action, or ”a partner” in it, or “party” to it, or any number of other formulations.
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