Obama Impedes Israel's Iran Attack

It probably helps that most of Israel's military establishment is against it. Hope they can rein Netanyahu in permanently.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/289-134/13327-obama-impedes-israels-iran-attack

he ploy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use the November elections to push President Obama into supporting an attack on Iran's nuclear sites appears to be failing in the face of Obama's firm "no," say Jim Lobe and Gareth Porter at Inter Press Service.

President Barack Obama's explicit warning that he will not accept a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran may force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from his ostensible threat of war.

Netanyahu had hoped that the Obama administration could be put under domestic political pressure during the election campaign to shift its policy on Iran to the much more confrontational stance that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have been demanding.

But that political pressure has not materialized, and Obama has gone further than ever before in warning Netanyahu not to expect U.S. backing in any war with Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told reporters in Great Britain on Aug. 30 that an Israeli strike would be ineffective, and then said, "I don't want to be complicit if they (the Israelis) choose to do it."