We're Doomed

by Ugh

From the front page of today's Wall Street Journal (copying from the paper version - emphasis supplied):

The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest "bunker buster" bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran's most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site.

U.S. officials see development of the weapon as critical to convincing Israel that the U.S. has the ability to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb if diplomacy fails, and also that Israel's military can't do that on its own.

Awesome.  Also:

U.S. officials said the U.S. and Israel have reached an understanding that they will assess the intentions of Iran's leaders after the [June 2013] election, and then, barring progress on the dimplomatic track, shift to a detailed discussion of military options.

And the Administration was planning on publicly informing U.S. citizens of this when?  And since when does "diplomacy" include things like outright sabotage and crippling economic sanctions?

To sum up: (i) the U.S. has spent somewhere between a third and 3/4 of a billion dollars (per the article) developing a weapon to demonstrate to Israel that the U.S. has the capability of destroying Iran's nuclear program so that Israel won't try to do the same even though Israel couldn't if it tried; and (ii) the U.S. has secretly agreed with Israel that the "military option" - I assume it's the U.S. military option since apparently Israel is incapable - will advance if the Iranian people don't elect people the U.S. and Israel are happy with, but it hasn't bothered to inform, like, Americans of this agreement.  

This is madness.

Comments

[McKinneyTexas]

And the Administration was planning on publicly informing U.S. citizens of this when?

This is rich, given the thread below. Anyone want to rerun my guest post demonstrating that, at least when Republicans go to war, they first have, you know, a national debate and a vote in both the house and senate? But, for those who think the constitution is out of date and more than 100 years old (truly, it is *more* than 100 years old), I guess these stupid formalities don't really apply.

[Ugh]

Care to expand a little? I mean, you've been reading here long enough to know that not everyone to the left of the center is in agreement - with each other or the Obama administration (hell, I think this and the prior two posts of mine have been critical of the latter, at least in part).

If you want me to throw a link to your guest post up I'm happy to (I recall it but can't seem to find it).

Should the Obama Administration attack Iran, it would be interesting to see it's legal justification if it doesn't have Congressional approval (I imagine the AUMF would play a significant part).