A former CIA director, Michael Hayden, in an interview with newspaper said that Israel was not capable of carrying out military action on a sustained basis against the many nuclear sites the country of Iran has, without receiving help from the United States.
Hayden said he did not want people to think he underestimated the talent of the armed forces in Israel, but he said physics and geometry tell us it would be a difficult to attack the nuclear program in Iran for any military worldwide. Hayden added that Israeli’s resources were somewhat limited as compared to the U.S.
The ex-CIA director also said it is uncertain if all of the nuclear program’s targets are known. That suggested that efforts made by Iran to hide some of its program’s facilities might have worked in outwitting even the world’s most advanced espionage agency.
Hayden also repeated what officials from the U.S. had previously reported that a single bombing attack would not be very successful in knocking out nuclear sites, because Iran has them so heavily fortified. He said multiple attacks would be needed on sites in order to be successful and only could be done successfully by the Air Force of the United States.
Hayden said by striking Iran, it would only push back the timetable in Iran and push Iranians into doing what everyone does not want – completely a nuclear weapon. Hayden things from what information is available that Iran is almost two years away from being able to start working on their nuclear weapon and that gives time for both the U.S. and Israel to decide on what action is best.
The mission of the new U.N. envoy to Syria is not only “impossible” but also naive. Perhaps the U.N. sees no harm in sending Lakhdar Brahimi to Syria, but it is utterly foolish for him to be there waiving a white flag in the mist of aerial bombings and intense ground fighting.
Indeed, even if peace was still plausible, it would mean loss of power for Assad and his henchmen — or their answering for war crimes, as they had reached the point of no return to civilized governance long ago. Their only hope now is to fight the rebellion and carve out a chunk of Syria for their refuge.
The Iranian regime is absolutely determined to help Assad do this — which is precisely why the path through Syria has become our gateway to Iran.
And let us not fool ourselves: That regime will have to be confronted militarily, sooner or later. The time to do so is now when we have other nations by our side going into Syria.
As for Russia and China, these two are reasonable opponents and will do what is best for them — and the rabid Iranian regime is not much better for them as it is for the rest of us. And like us, Russia and China have given up all hope of taming it.
It is foreseeable then that Russia and China will again watch as we spend our blood and treasure to knock out another troublesome regime in the world.
A more pressing question is whether we have any stomach left for another war. Assad and the Iranian regime are betting that we don’t.
But then so did Saddam and Gaddafi.