No, that eight year war with Iraq,backed by the US, must be my over active imagination playing tricks on me again
Even Saddam never expressed any intention to wipe Iran off the map. His stated intentions were to sieze some oil producing regions on the border.
The Arabs and Iran have repeatedly started wars with the stated intention of destoying Israel entirely - as Nasser did in 1967. I gather that is what you refer to when you say that Israel strikes first when it 'feels threatened'. Let me see, 800,000 Egyptian troops on the border, hundreds of heavy guns too, Nasser's stated intention to wipe out Israel, the Syrians even more bellicose, the USSR egging them on, the UN useless as usual, meekly withdrawing its "peacekeepers" at Nasser's request, a month of fruitless attempts to negotiate the crisis - gee, why should Israel have 'felt threatened' by that? They should have let the Egyptians strike first, and lose a few thousand dead civilians in the attack, would that have pleased you better? I doubt it. |
