By John LeBoutillierEvery week brings ominous new signs that Iran soon will possess operational nuclear weapons. Just this week Israeli President Shimon Peres - their senior diplomat and wise man - issued an uncharacteristic warning: "If (President) Ahmadinejad doesn't work with the Obama Administration and the international community to stop building nuclear weapons, of course we will then strike."
This blunt threat is a startling development coming from President Peres, a normally calm, collected and reticent-to-bluster statesman.
The Israeli President - a ceremonial post not a policy-making one - then added: "we will not be able to move forward on this without the United States."
And that is the rub. Will President Obama ever go along with a pre-emptive Israeli strike on Iran? A strike which will roil the international world, cause oil prices to spike to perhaps anywhere from $100 - $200 per barrel virtually overnight? A strike, which will earn him the condemnation of the Third World - and maybe our 'banker' China? A strike, which may cause some sort of Iranian retaliation - either directly or from their surrogates in the international terror world?
Will Obama - under heavy pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby here at home - be able to withstand that pressure to stop Iran before they use the nukes on Israel while Ahmadinejad flaunts Iran's imminent entry into the 'Nuclear Club?'
This is a decision that Obama does not want to face. He hopes to talk, yak, delay, stall this mess in hopes that something else - a coup perhaps or Ahmadinejad's removal or Russian intervention - will stop their nuclear weapons program. Just having nuclear reactors is not the problem; making weapons grade plutonium is a major problem for the world. [more...]
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