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? asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 6 years ago

What are the pros & cons of Obama supporting Netanyahu's plan for preemptive strikes against Iran?

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  • 6 years ago

    Sorry? The agreement with Iran has been accepted by all 5 signatories. Yes! Even in the USA. It's high time that the IAEA took a closer look at Netanyahu's nuclear arsenal.

    IRan has never attacked another country, whereas successive Israeli governments have a long history of such attacks.

  • 6 years ago

    Well, these two coutries have very up to date and excellent military intelligence. Guess what. Do we know what they know? NO. Thats a resounding "NO". We the public, are kept in the dark and just told what they have DECIDED on.

    Now, you ask me what are the pros and cons of a preemptive strike? Darned if I know.. Do they know something that needs a preemptive strike? That is a darned good possibility. Now if they would only tell me, I would be more supportive of such an operation that appears very quixotic right now..

  • Pros and Cons: “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews. Marshall (referring to Secretary of State George Marshall) and Forrestal (referring to Secretary of Defense) learned that…. terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen …. I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don’t approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country”

    – Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in February 1957 (Donald Neff’s book: “Fallen Pillars” page 99)

  • 6 years ago

    Pros: A state sponsor of terror is weakened, and has it's nuclear capabilities removed.

    Cons: Not very many, of course you have the risk of soldiers losing life and the risk of the war spreading, but lots of targeted strikes all at once would cripple Iran to the point that they couldn't retaliate.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    For the USA and entire Free World, the Pros:

    1. it make 100% clear: state which takes hostages diplomats may NOT have Nukes....

    For the USA and entire Free World, the Cons:

    1. It will repeat Bush mistake, making one branch of Islam much stronger than the other branch.

  • Pros: Those folks with investments in defense contractors will see a continued increase in the value of their investments.

    Cons: The puppets on the other side of the scheme, the leaders of nut-job countries and terror organizations, will have their own war-mongering validated.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Pros: Iran might wipe Israel from the map

    Cons: Iran might not wipe Israel from the map

  • Kini
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Iran will smash them and respond to defend themselves. Iran has been restrained all these years in spite of Israel sabotaging the centrifuges, parking Israeli submarines off the Iranian coast, having spies inside Iran, assassinating Iran's nuclear scientists and Hamas leaders wherever they are and committing acts of violence and blaming Iran.

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