If Israel Bombed Iran...Would U.S. Attack?

Exactly. Iran is no real threat to us. They don't want a war with the US. Saddams Law states that when you are the ruler of a medium-sized third world country, it takes a special kind of incompetence to maneuver yourself into a shooting war with the United States. What Iran seeks is parity with the other regional powers--India, Pakistan, and Israel--all of which are nuclear armed. THAT is who they are trying to deter, not us.

It should never be forgotton that Ahmanutjob's rhetoric is for domestic consumption. Iran has a ton of problems but the place is fervently nationalistic. Whenever the Iranians start bitching about their inflation, election fraud, oppressive government, economy, etc., he makes a rant about Israel or America as a diversion. Third work dictators are all talk and no action.

If Iran had a nuke they wouldn't use it for the same reason the Russians never used theirs -- massive instant retaliation. As it is they have no nukes nor a delivery system either.

They are on the brink of counter-revolution anyway with most of the population under 28 and feeling more modern than the revolutionary generation now in charge. The best thing we can do to let this happen is NOT to make war upon Iran. This would make them all nationalistic to defend their country. This is what happened in Iraq and it was a blunder.

The best thing we can do is to isolate Iran diplomatically and culturally and let the disagreements within simmer some more until they boil over. The islamist hold on power in Iran is tenuous. We need to be playing all sides against each other to divide them and not drive them together to resist us. Ahmadinejad could be voted out of office and replaced by another moderate. Another revolution could happen.

Right now sanctions, condemnation, military posturing and veiled threats are more valuable than military action. The best scenario is for Iran to collapse internally, like the Soviet Union did. This is what we should be trying to covertly encourage.

 

We are not the world's policeman. The Iranian people have to take matters into their own hands. Democracy only comes from within. They have to want it and be willing to fight for it, it cannot be given to them by outsiders.