Earlier, when the Iran protest was at its peak, I wrote in this space that the Prime Minister of Israel would never get a better opportunity to bomb the Iranian nuclear program all the way to its consummation in heaven. The desire for regime change, the need for leverage to do that heavy lifting, and the confluence of both political instability and incomplete warheads lay before the Israeli leader like a poker tournament with a perfect hand – at least, as perfect as youre going to get witha lefty-liberal in the American whitehouse.
I wrote of how tragic it would be for Israel to miss its best opportunity to cancel both nuclear program and regime all in one go. If the pile-on of an Israeli embarassment of the “messianic” Terroranian regime lead to the tippy-topple of the wobbling mullahs: Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and who knows who else, would all suffer irreparable loss of military-industrial complex and that, in the lingo, is “a good thing”.
Crushing police tactics ensued, pretty young girls were gunned down in the street, and the protesters melted into the villages faster than you can say Taliban. The tragedy that we hoped to avert was on us. (Obama predictably did nothing while congratulating himself on his rhetoric, as is his penchant)
But today, we are shocked to learn that Mr. Netanyahu here, now, has what political figures like him never get, and which he, justifiably, shouldn’t get in this situation. The Iranian people have decided to cue up the ball for him again, line up the vectors, and beg him for just one impulse, just one sharp corner pocket go.
Third chances here are not something we should bet on Bibi.
