AMERICAblog: Did Biden give a green light for Israel to attack Iran?
MACV
· 4 months ago
It doesn't matter what Vice President Biden says. Israel could not strike Iran without being attacked on all sides by every Muslim neighbor in her immediate vicinity including Iran. She would have to go "nuclear" and then all hell would break out. We would be plunged into a world wide depression of unimaginable depth. The Straits of Hormuz would be closed and oil could reach $400 a barrel. World markets would be chaotic and unstable. It's just talk and everybody of any intelligence knows it.
MikeinSanJo
· 4 months ago
And maybe Biden was giving Iran the go-ahead to wipe Israel off the map.
Clearly BOTH countries are threats to their neighbors. I think in recent years, Israel has much more blood on their hands.
It's just a matter of who you ask.
PrahaPartizan
· 4 months ago
Biden's comment was nothing more than a simple explication of what any international relations course would teach. He offered no value assessment of any course of action, without which the statement implies nothing. This tempest is way overblown.
mf_roe
· 4 months ago
So if Iran feels threatened by Israel we will stand aside and let them defend their country?
mf_roe
· 4 months ago
Ask this question, "If Israel were destroyed what good would it do for the US to attack whatever country did it?" Israel uses the US as a magic shield to protect their country from its neighbors and seems to be totally uninterested in trying to live in a mutually respectful way. Israel projects a self-rightousness that will someday gain them the war they seem to lust for.
WHYN0T
· 4 months ago
Had Reagan NOT been elected because the election was more or less thrown by the deal Bush's CIA made with Iran to detain the hostages until after the election, and we had stayed the course of seeking alternative energy sources, our need to be involved in the affairs of the Middle East would have been a distant memory by now.
libertydan
· 4 months ago
Let Israel do whatever they want and stop giving them money, stop treating them like a child.
Deacon_Blues
· 4 months ago
Somehow I don't think American foreign policy messages are sent by the news media. They use Facebook for that.
John Aravosis
· 4 months ago
Okay that made me laugh.
downindixie
· 4 months ago
Just maybe they will blow each other up and we will be rid of this threat from both sides for many a year.
RainbowPhoenix
· 4 months ago
I think we've reached Dan Quayle level nonsensicleness here.
MichaelS
· 4 months ago
I heard this on the news yesterday and that's the first thing I thought -- YES, he's signalling loud and clear to Israel that the US would support an Israeli strike on Iran.
...seems we sent the same signal (albeit perhaps unintentionally) to Iraq regarding their designs on Kuwait... and look how well that turned out...
mf_roe
· 4 months ago
We stir the caldron of hate in the Middle East so that we have an excuse to inject our interests into the region. So far the sauce from that pot sucks.
Indigo
· 4 months ago
I'm under the impression that the Israeli warriors can use their nuclear weapons any time they want to. They've had the green light all along. Maybe that's just me being cynical . . . ?
joebear
· 4 months ago
Israel has nuclear weapons? If so, shouldn't there be inspections? Oh, we're not supposed to talk about that.
Indigo
· 4 months ago
Oh! My bad! I totally retract suggesting that ISRAEL HAS NUCLEAR WEARPONS!
Ferdiad
· 4 months ago
This is all posturing. Israel doesn't have the capability to attack Iran and the Iranians know it. My guess is that so do the Israelis.
markf217
· 4 months ago
Telling other countries what to do and not to do is so Bush administration. "Look, we cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do..." I am glad to hear our elected officials making comments like that. God bless you Mr. Vice President Biden. The era of Bush-Cheney fascist imperialism ended in January 2009. I think an attack on Iran by Israel would not be in the USA's best interest, but Israel is not a 51st state, but an independent nation. Israel has to look out for Israel. And the USA needs to be focused more on cleaning up and fixing the domestic, GOP-manufactured, economic disaster.
Rob Mule
· 4 months ago
Nice parrot imatation of the MSM's poop du jour right down to the "some people" of non confirmatory verbs, "seems".
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff..." Juilus Caesar, act 3, scene 2
Could someone please explain the difference between a threat and an existential threat?
mtiffany
· 4 months ago
It seems to me that the majority of the people who see Biden's statement as "a green light" for Israel to attack Iran are the very same people who are anxious for the United States to attack Iran (so long as it's neither them nor their own children doing the fighting and the dying, mind you). This is just more wishful thinking and masturbatory fantasies of Republican neo-con-f-tards.
kathleen
· 4 months ago
Really, if Israel is free to follow it's own interests, then so is the U.S., should Israel do something as stupid as attacking Iran. I believe this is the unstated (in public) subtext. And supporting an increasingly fascist Israel is clearly no longer in the U.S. interest.
dula
· 4 months ago
Remember that Biden refused to let Scott Ritter, Weapons Inspector, to testify to his Committee that there were no WMDs...Biden may enjoy war.
All Comments
Clearly BOTH countries are threats to their neighbors. I think in recent years, Israel has much more blood on their hands.
It's just a matter of who you ask.
...seems we sent the same signal (albeit perhaps unintentionally) to Iraq regarding their designs on Kuwait... and look how well that turned out...
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff..."
Juilus Caesar, act 3, scene 2
http://www.juancole.com/2009/07/iraqis-project-...