I wasn't the only one a bit queasy. Quoting Queen's Brian May - “too much love will kill you” - Haaretz's Chemi Shalev writes:
Herman Cain said the U.S. would “join Israel” in attacking Iran, as long
as the Israelis came up with a credible plan; Newt Gingrich said the
U.S. would bomb Tehran only as a “last recourse” but would be happy to
team up with Israel in a “conventional” attack; Michele Bachmann has
already indicated that the Pentagon should present “war plans” in order
to rescue “millions of Israelis who are on the precipice of losing their
lives”; Rick Perry said “if we're going to be serious about saving
Israel, we better get serious about Syria and Iran”; Rick Santorum made
up for lost time in the debate by declaring later, “I’d be working
with Israel and be very clear with Iran that we are preparing a military
strike"; Mitt Romney thinks that the answer to Iran is to go to Israel
“to show the world we care about that country and that region”; and
former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, usually the most cautious Republican
debater on matters of foreign policy, said “our interest is to ensure
that Israel - that Iran does not go nuclear. Our interest in the Middle
East is Israel.”
Not Saudi Arabia. Not the Gulf emirates. Not the Maghreb. Not the Horn
of Africa. Not a stable Iraq. Not a moderate Egypt. Not the free flow
of oil. Not containment of China and Russia. Not Islamic moderation, not
even the fight against jihadist terrorism. Just Israel.
Whole thing is
here.
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