Daniel Pipes:To Get Obama To Act, Netanyahu Should Threaten To Nuke Iran

[Emit]

Pipes: To Get Obama To Act, Netanyahu Should Threaten To Nuke Iran

In a recent interview with the right-wing Christian Zionist Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, neoconservative pundit Daniel Pipes shared his view that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a means of “applying pressure” on the United States.

“I think it’s realistic for the Israelis to attack and do real damage,” Pipes said. “Now, what constitutes success, I’m not exactly sure. There are many, many questions“:

PIPES: If I were (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, I would say to (U.S. President Barack) Obama, “Why don’t you take out the Iranian nukes? Or else we will And we will not do it by trying to fly planes across Turkey and Syria or Jordan or Saudi Arabia. We will do it from submarine-based, tactical nuclear weapons. You don’t want that; we don’t want that; but that’s the way we can do this job for sure. You do it your way so we don’t have to escalate to that.” That would be a way of applying pressure. There are so many details which I’m not privy to. But that would be my kind of approach if I were the Israelis.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/25/pipes-to-get-obama-to-act-netanyahu-should-threaten-to-nuke-iran/#comments

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. And actually admit they have them? Not gonna happen. -nt

[Hydra]

3. No, they will just say "bombing"

And not go into specifics.

This worries me though, and not because a wacko is pushing a bad meme- it's because I just read another OP today from Michael Hayden pushing for an attack on Iran too.

I don't believe in coincidence.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Whenever Daniel "Crack" Pipes suggests you should do something

You know that the only sane action is to do the exact opposite of whatever that genocidal fuckstain said.

[Ross K]

8. +1

And I'm sick and tired of this Imperial shit! If Baby Netan YAHOO wants after Iran, go to it, bitch! But don't be expecting any more billions from here!

[Purveyor]

4. And remind me again...who would be the 'rogue state'? eom

[Ani Yun Wiya]

5. This assclown Pipes...

Why isn't he locked up yet ?

[Hardrada]

6. And the key thrown into a nearby lake.

[Quetzal]

7. this guy is a fucking joke

[H2O Man]

9. Bad idea, Mr. P

Let's not go there.

[MrScorpio]

10. Pipes is a racist asshole

I'm not surprised that he would advocate killing people