McCain says Israel shaken by US dallying

[Jesus Malverde]

US lawmakers expressed worries Sunday that a lack of American action on Syria could send a signal to Israel and Iran that Washington would not be steadfast in thwarting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

Speaking to Channel 2 News, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) said US President Barack Obama’s decision to put off military action until after Congressional approval had rattled Israel’s belief in the US commitment to protecting the Jewish state from the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran.

“It has discouraged our allies and I am most worried about the effect it will have on Israel and on Iran,” McCain said. “The Iranians are nearly euphoric, as is Bashar Assad, and our Israeli friends are very worried about the steadfastness and commitment of the United States concerning the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran.”

McCain also dismissed threats by Syria that it would strike at Israel in revenge for a US attack.

“Every time the US has acted decisively there is no retaliation against the retaliations, so I am not worried about the retaliations,” he said.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/mccain-says-israel-shaken-by-us-dallying/

[nebenaube]

1. Really?

I'd think they'd be fucking terrified.

[Downwinder]

4. Aleppo has religious significance.

[Scootaloo]

9. You notice they haven't said much about it

All the people invoking Israel are, rather pointedly, not Israeli.

But that's often the way it goes. Angry white Christians think Israel is just the best most importantest place ever, and i imagine the people who live in Israel wish the angry white Christians would find somewhere else to be very interested in.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. ...

I don't really follow the logic here. Assad already has chemical weapons. Which the USA isn't going to prevent him from getting. Any American response isn't going to do anything to Assad's chemical weapons stockpile, or his production capacity; it would take ground troops to do that. A pointless "limited response" bombing campaign won't achieve anything because there's no clearly defined goal or strategy or endgame. It won't end the civil war in Syria, it probably won't dissuade Assad from brutally repressing the rebels, and it certainly won't effect regime change. Any similar response to a declaration from Tehran that they were on the verge of a uranium enrichment breakthrough...for instance...would probably only make the Iranians decide to redouble their efforts at acquiring nukes.

[HooptieWagon]

5. True. Attacking Syria will speed up Iran nuke program.

[Skidmore]

17. The fallback position when the poles are not

aligned in the ME is that the Israeli state is threatened. Sometimes Israel just needs to let others attend to their own concerns. I'd like to see us put a little space between Israel and US interests.The aren't always identical.

[HooptieWagon]

3. What? No mushroom cloud or Hitler references?

Grandpa must be losing his touch.

[Lint Head]

6. Wow. A concern within a concern disguised as a concern.

[Jesus Malverde]

8. but no concern regarding these concerns based on his previous concerns...nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran.

McCain is a Jerk.

[gopiscrap]

10. Fuck Israel

[PCIntern]

16. Nice...

thank you for your erudite discussion and insight.

[Carolina]

21. K&R gopiscrap

Fuck Israel.

I am sick and tired of my tax dollars being used so that this blight on the ME can exist. It's a thug nation that kills Palestinian children and gins up conflict. Let it sink or swim on its own; and all those AIPAC-owned pols can take their sorry asses over there, too

[PCIntern]

22. Brilliant...

Israel is the blight. Uh-huh. While these nations bomb and starve their peoples so that the uppercrust live literally like kings and queens, Israel is the blight. You have a real profound sense of what is right and wrong in this world. DU rules prevent me from saying what I really think of your 'post'.

[gopiscrap]

30. Uh for way too long we have protected Isreal while they bully their way around the middle east

if you want to talk about crimes against humanity ask the Palistinians who lost their homeland because of the collective quilt of the western powers after world war two. We spend way too much money on this country.

[PCIntern]

31. Wonderful fair and balanced analysis of a simple situation.

Why didn't I ever think of that?

[gopiscrap]

25. thank you

[MotherPetrie]

29. +1

[gopiscrap]

11. welcome to du

[avaistheone1]

12. Tough cookies.

If you don't like it Israel, why don't you got it alone?

[Link Speed]

34. Maybe they could refund our money n/t

[Scuba]

13. Did he happen to mention why we should give a shit?

[dimbear]

14. Let's put senators McCain and Paul in a small room for a few hours.

Let them get a little clarification twixt themselves.

[malaise]

15. Fugg McGramps

He 's a neo-con warmoger

[99Forever]

18. Fuck Israel.

And fuck Grampy McCain. You and Israel want to go to war? Have at it, jump on a fucking plane and go for it. On your own fucking dime.

[Carolina]

20. K&R

Fuck Israel!

[gopiscrap]

26. K and R

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Israel would be more "shaken" by vicarious Syrian bombs

launched in retaliation of the U.S. bombing its country.

[edhopper]

23. And Britain obviously shaken

by US action.
So Gramps, are you saying Israel trumps all other allies?

[FarCenter]

24. If Iran attacks Israel, I'm certain that we would attack Iran

Short of that, we should do nothing.

[obxhead]

27. Good. nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

28. Netanyahu can do his own dirty work, thanks!

We appreciated their forbearance in not bombing Iraq during GW I; that debt should have been more than repaid when we invaded Iraq.

[tokenlib]

32. And I"m shaken by all their damned settlements in the West Bank!

But do they care about that? Hell no! I say pull the plug on their foreign aid unless they start DISMANTLING the damn settlements..

[gulliver]

33. He and Sarah Palin would have attacked Serbia by now.

The Serbians would be thinking, what?