US fears Israel would not advise it in advance if it strikes Iran

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by magicstix

They're going to have some serious trouble getting overflight to Iran if they don't come to us first... Plus a campaign against Iran would require weeks of bombing at high operational tempo, not just a quick airstrike.

They just flew over Jordan and Saudi Arabia when attacking the Iraqi Nuclear Plant in Osirak back in 1981, they never ask anybody and they didnt have to ask anybody.
What makes you so sure that it needs weeks of airstrike?
Just because the Iranian Loudmouth Ahmadinedschad and other self proclaimed "Middle east experts" say so and the international appeasement press is willingly following this logic?
No one of us knows what the Israelis already know about the locations and their positions and how they will take care of.
You dont have to destroy a nuclear plant or anykind of nuclear production facility etc, just go and kill the heads who run them, kill the workers, detsroy the logistics that can be done in the countries who support them, that must not be necesarly the iran.
Thats the kind of lanquage which is very well understood in any islamic country!!

The other side of the medal is the Israelis themselves, sure they make the loid noise right now about attacking iran, the main reason is that Ahmadinedschad is not very popular when it comes to the Ayatollahs, so maybe the ayatollahs leash the dog again which they have unleashed some years before.
When there is great smoke, that not necessarly mean that there is a fire too and the israelis can play that kind of music like no one else on this planet because the louder the battlecry from israel is the more will the other nations try to get an diplomatic appeasement and then there are options:

1. iran steps back from its nuclear program(which is not very possible)
2. iran has diplomatic negotiations about the nuclear topic and this will bring the israelis more time to take proper care of
3. The israelis make a deal with the iranians, the israelis are quite good in such little dirty deals, they did it with the Jordanians and the Iranians aswell back in the 80's and 90's, just guess from where the spare parts for the iranian M-109's came from during the Iranian-Iraqi War in the 80'

There is a saying in the Middle east that applies very good:
"If you can't cut your enemies hand, then shake it"

There will be interesting times, such much is for sure.