It’s an unsourced report, which makes it eminently deniable, and I don’t want to believe it’s true. But it’s big enough that you need to read about this. (H/T: Ed Morrisey.) According to this report, Biden told Israel that the Obama campaign won’t stop Iran from getting nukes.
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was quoted Monday as telling senior Israeli officials behind closed doors that the Jewish state will have to reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.
In the unsourced report, Army Radio also quoted Biden as saying that he opposed “opening a additional military and diplomatic front.”
Biden, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has long been considered strongly pro-Israel. His nomination as Barack Obama’s running mate had been expected to shore up the Democrats’ strength with U.S. Jewish voters.
Army Radio said Israeli officials expressed “amazement” over the remarks attributed to him.
“Israel will have to reconcile itself with the nuclearization of Iran,” Army Radio quoted Biden as telling the unnamed officials.
“It’s doubtful if the economic sanctions will be effective, and I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front.”
If this report is true, then the Obama campaign’s stand on Iran getting nukes is: Suck it up.
Nice. Good to know that we can count on the Dems to defend America. Because if anyone thinks that Iran is going to stop at using nukes on the Little Satan, and ignore the Big Satan, they need to read up on what the Mad Mullahs are saying about America on a regular basis. When the top mullah reinforces his minion Ahmadinejad’s efforts and tells him to prepare for a second term, it doesn’t matter that he gets a little criticism here and there. Because Khameini just put a new puppet into place in the Iranian air force, and told him to upgrade it.
Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday appointed Brigadier General Hassan Shah-Safi as the new chief commander of Iran’s Air Force, replacing Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani.
The Leader recommended the new commander to boost combat preparedness of the air force and proceed with programs in line with self-sufficiency and updating hardware of the air force, in response to Western threats of a military air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, press tv reported.
Good to know that the Obama campaign is going to be capitulating to Iran while it builds up its weapons and military.
I’ve got a new slogan for the election: The Democrats: Soft on defense. But we’re really good about talking about it.
Another Democrat slogan:
Millions for talk, but not one red cent for action.
I see we’ve been down this path before…nothing new under the sun, apparently.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Millions_for_tribute_not_one_cent_for_defense
All that’s necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
We should think long and hard before we throw God’s chosen people under a bus.
Realistically, it’s hard to imagine exactly how we (or the IDF) could stop the Iranians, short of launching our own nukes. But Barry’s let’s-talk routine certainly is less likely to find one than Mac.
This seems quite consistent with Biden’s past actions: specifically, his crazy proposal, immediately following 9/11, to send Iran a check for $200,000,000 with no strings attached.
Since there is probably no way short of war to stop Iran’s nuclear program I’m not at all surprised at this honesty, if that is what it is. I doubt a McCain Administration would use war to stop Iran’s nuclear program either, although it might continue aggressive diplomacy. But Obama has promised to defund missile defense, shrink military techonological development, and spend enormous amounts of money (part of it presumably taken from the DoD) on ambitious social engineering programs that make LBJ look like Robert Taft. For Obama and his advisors, defending the USA or its allies is just a distraction from the really important stuff, dontcherknow.
I suspect that only a preemptive nuclear attack on Iran would be able to destroy its nuke program. Nobody has the backbone for that, not McCain, not whoever replaces Olmert, certainly not Obama, who cannot even comprehend when his country is at war. I have been ocnvinced for years now that Iran will get nukes, nobody will do anything to stop it, and Iran will eventually use them, on Israel and on the USA. Whether Iran succeeds in it attack or not, Iran will then be turned into a radioactive parking lot. I can only pray that the anti-missile systems work, and that the intelligence agencies are able to identify and thwart any nuke terrorist attacks Iran may attempt.
If the Iranians do not want to be fried in the exchange they must overthrow the Mullahs before the latter get nukes. They put those evil scum into power. Their consent, tacit or active, keeps them in power. It is their responsibility to remove them. If they don’t the Iranians will face grim consequences.
That unsourced radio broadcast was probably political proaganda, and vehemently denied in today’s JPost.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186495107&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull