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February 16, 2007
I can't vouch for this ...
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
... but someone in some position to know, and no particular reason to lie, tells me that the Bushoid saber-rattling about Iran is mostly designed to keep the Israelis from striking out on their own. Apparently the current Israeli government is strongly tempted to try to do to Iran what it did to Iraq over the Osirak reactor in 1981, and we're trying to convince them that it isn't necessary.
