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There are a powerful critical few in Israel who believe that the USA exists solely for Israel.
There is a long litany of of statements by former Israeli leaders who have said as much to their Jewish audience in the USA, and Israel in a gloating condescending manner.
It assumes that Israel leads in certain strategic matters, and the USA follows uncritically, and automatically without filtering or thinking through their plans.
This is a selfish policy which requires that America does the grunt-work of decades of ceaseless illegal wars against former turned allies in order to accommodate Israel's worldview and the Yinon plan, of Balkanizing Middle States whilst expanding the borders of Israel into Greater Israel.
Israel was not in Iraq, in significant numbers.
Israel was not in Afghanistan.
Israel is not in Yemen.
Israel is not in Somalia.
And Israel won't be in Iran, even after the initial strike.
Israel cannot sustain long wars, as it will devastate the economy, BUT Israel expects the USA to fight along with NATO ......using a long series of false flag ops, race baiting episodes and staged events to "encourage' the USA/NATO to fight for Israel.
The laws of nature that apply to Israel also apply to the USA, even as the mightiest hyper-power on earth.
Prolonged wars subverts a society, and destroys a nation. Sparta ceased to exist It is Democratic Athens which ultimately prevailed. No nation can survive by being fixated to war and security. Nazi Germany didn't, Imperial Japan didn't, KGB Soviet Union didn't, Stasi East Germany didn't. North Korea shouldn't but for the largess of a very understanding and generous sugar daddy.
One also assumes that strategic intelligence exists in the USA, and along with that a certain amount of dignity and self-respect. There is something to be said for the most powerful man on earth, as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth being dictated to by little basket case Israel in some of her most strategic policies, which also ties the hand of the president in terms of policy options........and inadvertently puts the President in a very awkward position, which he must alone ameliorate.
Israel is a nuisance, and not a vital ally of the USA.
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Israelis Puzzled by Dempsey Comments Opposing Strike on Iran
Dempsey described a potential Israeli strike as dangerous and counterproductive, in a break with typical deference to Israeli warmongers
by John Glaser at antiwar.com
A senior Israeli official on Saturday told the Jerusalem
Post he was confused
by recent statements from US military chief Gen. Martin Dempsey the US
would not support an Israeli strike on Iran.
“Dempsey’s comments are strange in
that they would seem to contradict the continual statements from the
White House that the security and defense cooperation between Israel and
the US has never been as close,” the senior official said.
On Thursday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin
Dempsey said
he did not want to be “complicit” in an Israeli military strike on
Iran, which he said would be dangerous and counterproductive.
He warned that an attack by Israel would “clearly delay but probably
not destroy Iran’s nuclear program.” This falls in line with previous
analysis by the Obama administration and experts that Iran’s
nuclear enrichment is too redundant to be completely destroyed by
Israeli attacks and that such a move may encourage the Iranians to
actually start making weapons to serve as a deterrent for further
strikes.
For now, Dempsey said, whether Iran even wants nuclear weapons is
inconclusive. But he did warn that diplomatic and economic pressure on
Iran “could be undone if [Iran] was attacked prematurely.”
The Israelis might be forgiven for being confused by Dempsey’s blunt
statement of opposition to an Israeli strike, given President Obama’s
frequent statements in line with Israeli warmongering that “all options
are on the table,” a Washington euphemism for war. The administration’s
ratcheting up of tensions with Iran through tough guy diplomacy and
harsh economic sanctions also sends signals of willingness for war.
But the administration has actually been quite clear that they don’t
support a military strike on Iran, if in no other way than the constant
reiterations of the intelligence consensus that Iran actually does not
even have a nuclear weapons program, and thus no threat is imminent and
no attack is justified.
