is that treasonous? if mccain had been elected we would already be in another war.
So Netanyahu gets McCain - the president's last electoral opponent - to make the following public statement:
"There should be no daylight between America and Israel in our assessment of the [Iranian] threat. Unfortunately there clearly is some."
And the "unfortunately" is clearly, in McCain's view, Obama's fault.
What to make of all this? I'd say, as I did earlier today, it's a further escalation of Netanyahu's attempt to use US domestic politics to back a war on Iran. First we get McCain et al on Israeli soil backing the Israeli prime minister against the US president and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Then we get the report that Israel is preparing to strike alone. Now we hear via Haaretz that Netanyahu is demanding that Obama threaten a US military strike if Iran does not back down on its secluded nuclear research, rather than repeat the "all options are on the table" diplo-speak. Could this confusing set of signals have something to do with this:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast...ost-dangerous-gop-opponent-netanyahu-ctd.html
So Netanyahu gets McCain - the president's last electoral opponent - to make the following public statement:
"There should be no daylight between America and Israel in our assessment of the [Iranian] threat. Unfortunately there clearly is some."
And the "unfortunately" is clearly, in McCain's view, Obama's fault.
What to make of all this? I'd say, as I did earlier today, it's a further escalation of Netanyahu's attempt to use US domestic politics to back a war on Iran. First we get McCain et al on Israeli soil backing the Israeli prime minister against the US president and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Then we get the report that Israel is preparing to strike alone. Now we hear via Haaretz that Netanyahu is demanding that Obama threaten a US military strike if Iran does not back down on its secluded nuclear research, rather than repeat the "all options are on the table" diplo-speak. Could this confusing set of signals have something to do with this:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast...ost-dangerous-gop-opponent-netanyahu-ctd.html