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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (144035)8/25/2004 4:11:23 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It seems to me that if the question is one of Israel defending itself, it can do so up to a point. However, not, very likely, without financial aid, and with a least the threat of intervention if matters get too out of hand. I am still thinking about the nuclear balance argument. I think that the position of Israel means that it has to strike pre- emptively, since it cannot depend on the rational calculation of Iran, and since it has very little territory, and therefore can be essentially annihilated with one large bomb. Thus, to leave the region to itself would be dangerously destabilizing, until such time as the political complexion of the region changes. But I will ponder some more......
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