Obama foments uncontrolled war in the Middle

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Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War President Obama can't outsource matters of war and peace to another state.By BRET STEPHENS
Events are fast pushing Israel toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, probably by next spring. That strike could well fail. Or it could succeed at the price of oil at $300 a barrel, a Middle East war, and American servicemen caught in between....At July's G-8 summit in Italy, Iran was given a September deadline to start negotiations over its nuclear programs. Last week, Iran gave its answer: No....What's an American president to do in the face of this nonstarter of a document? What else, but pretend it isn't a nonstarter....the conclusion among Israelis is that the Obama administration won't lift a finger to stop Iran, much less will the "international community."...the administration isn't taking the bait, and one has to wonder why. Perhaps it thinks its diplomacy will work, or that it has the luxury of time, or that it can talk the Israelis out of attacking....Or maybe it isn't really paying attention....Iran will "be able to produce a weapon's worth of highly enriched uranium . . . in less than two months." No less critical in determining Israel's timetable is the anticipated delivery to Iran of Russian S-300 anti-aircraft batteries...It is certainly in America's supreme interest that Iran not acquire a genuine nuclear capability, whether of the actual or break-out variety...the Middle East generally, which doesn't need the nuclear arms race an Iranian capability would inevitably provoke...it is not in the U.S. interest that Israel be the instrument of Iran's disarmament...its ability to do so is iffy: Israeli strategists are quietly putting it about that even a successful attack may have to be repeated a few years down the road as Iran reconstitutes its capacity....an abdication of a superpower's responsibility to outsource matters of war and peace to another state...Iran is beyond the reach of his eloquence, and keeping in mind, too, that very useful Roman adage, Si vis pacem, para bellum.
****Obama's habit of voting "present" when important issues require tough decisions will likely do incredible damage.****