Two Choices Left

Israel is in the Wall Street Journal again. Today the Opinion section has an article written by Eliot Cohen, who is a Prof at Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Cohen is telling us the truth.....there are only two options left...1) a military strike on Iran by Israel and/or the USA, 2) a nuclear Iran soon.

Pressure, be it gentle or severe, will not erase that nuclear program. The choices are now what they ever were: an American or an Israeli strike, which would probably cause a substantial war, or living in a world with Iranian nuclear weapons, which may also result in war, perhaps nuclear, over a longer period of time.

As he points out, the USA is really who should be leading this war against Iran....but Obama can't even get his nerves settled about Afghanistan....so there is virtually NO WAY he is going to have the nerve to do what needs to be done to stop Iran.

An American attack would be more effective, but it would take longer and probably lead to real warfare in the Persian Gulf, disrupting oil supplies and producing global responses. More to the point, it is difficult to believe that the Obama administration has the stomach for war. Its appalling public case of nerves over the war in Afghanistan—a "war of necessity," as of only a few months ago—is indicative of its true temper. And if President Obama does not have the courage to accept hazards and ugly surprises, and if he cannot bring himself to deploy his rhetorical skills to the mobilization of opinion at home and abroad, he should not start a shooting war, even if the Iranians are already waging one against us.

Read it here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574420641457091318.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

One thing for sure....most of us have no concept of how our lives may be changed if either of these two options happen...and ONE of them WILL happen.