After a period of media attacks and covert assassinations things are heating up and an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear installations seems imminent.
This visit raised my internal alarm bells. From Newsweek:
The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington for top-level meetings on Iran. According to an American official who was involved, Tamir Pardo wanted to take the pulse of the Obama administration and determine what the consequences would be if Israel bombed Iranian nuclear sites over American objections. Pardo raised many questions, according to this source: “What is our posture on Iran? Are we ready to bomb? Would we [do so later]? What does it mean if [Israel] does it anyway?” As it is, Israel has stopped sharing a significant amount of information with Washington regarding its own military preparations.
Apart from being wary about Israel's intentions to drag the US into yet another war I do have serious misgivings about the dispensationalist Armageddon faction in the Christian right aka
pre-milleniarists and their fervent desire to get WW III going. The current surge of Rick Santorum' evangelical support is based on the assumption he will be willing to start a nuclear war to speed up the second coming of Christ.
I trust that the Obama administration will
reign rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions with diplomacy and sanctions and that his reelection will stop the war mongers.