Obama and Mullen: Facing Iran, Israel, and the American Right………
“Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. Ever since, he has been worrying aloud that Israel might mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran.This is especially worrying, because Mullen has had considerable experience in putting the brakes on such Israeli plans in the past. This time, he appears convinced that the Israeli leaders did not take his earlier warnings seriously — notwithstanding the unusually strong language he put into play. Upon arrival in Jerusalem on Feb. 14, Mullen wasted no time in making clear why he had come. He insisted publicly that an attack on Iran would be “a big, big, big problem for all of us, and I worry a great deal about the unintended consequences.” After his return, at a Pentagon press conference on Feb. 22, Mullen drove home the same point — with some of the same language. After reciting the usual boilerplate about Iran being “on the path to achieve nuclear weaponization” and about its “desire to dominate its neighbors,” he included this in his prepared remarks…….”
Only a military leader, a white military leader, could get away with that. If the US president, Barack Obama had said it, even in Washington, he would have been crucified by the right-wing gasbags on radio and Fox News who seem to run the Republican Party-, as well as Congress. And the Israeli right. And both Liebermans.
Clever of Mullen, and Obama, to do that,?
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