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How generous….Lord Obama makes the most overly redundant decision possible regarding Israel.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama\’s administration will offer Israel a \”nuclear umbrella\” against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said the U.S. will declare that an attack on Israel by Tehran would result in a devastating U.S. nuclear response against Iran.

Wow, really going out on a limb there huh?

So if someone nukes Israel, THEN we\’ll act by nuking them??  I probably don\’t need to point out that one of the worst kept secrets in world politics, is that Israel has lots of nuclear weapons of it\’s own.  So making this promise is sorta like telling Rambo that if someone shoots and kills him, we promise we\’ll shoot them in return.  You\’re not exactly promising much, and unfortunately for your action to be necessary requires the worst to happen.

Although I\’m am a little curious what His Holiness plans to aim our nuclear weapons towards.  Sure enough after Israel launches its likely posthumous counter-attack, there isn\’t going to much left of Iran…short of a few radioactive cockroaches.

And for a man that promises change and hope, it\’s a little sad that the best He can offer is M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction), a doctrine that began back in the 1950s.  Not exactly what one expects from a man who promises to change the world.

However, the one drawback to the M.A.D. doctrine is that it assumes (indeed requires) a rational opponent.  It only works when your enemy fears the destruction of himself.  The big drawback is that this requirement doesn\’t apply when your enemy thinks they are fighting a religious war and that their personal destruction is just part of the process.  Doesn\’t exactly inspire confidence (or hope) does it?

As if a strategy of questionable effectiveness wasn\’t bad enough, it also pretty clearly indicates the frame of mind in the Obama administration.  One of the basic facts in this scenario is that Iran possesses nuclear weapons.  Meaning an Obama Administration appears likely to simple cede that issue without dispute.  While technically that is change, it\’s certainly not the change one would like…and it clearly doesn\’t inspire much hope.