Israel Must Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections

Much of the news that we don't like to think about is coming closer to reality with each passing day. Iran is still belligerent in their efforts to become a nuclear power and at the same time consistent in their diatribes about destroying Israel.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli govenment along with the residents of Israel are warranted in their fears of the near future. The possibility that Iran will attack them once they are in the possession of a nuclear bomb is real. Israel cannot take that chance.

Sadly the fate of Israel rests in the coming U.S. political election. Israel's demotion from a 'favorite son' status in the eyes of Obama's administration to one equivalent but not markedly better than most other nations has been apparent for the last three years. Although our government hasn't snubbed Israel and we still state we are their ally, their status is truly demoted as compared with previous administrations.

Netanyahu and the leaders of Israel know that this election will certainly determine their fate. If Obama is reelected, his administration potentially could ostracize Israel through propaganda blitz and virtually ignore Iran's intentions to become a nuclear power. President Obama will no longer be influenced by a coming election and without much penalty can reverse any prior commitments made to Israel.

Netanyahu is obviously cognizant of this potential. What he and the other leaders believe is unknown to us but by the various comments he has made infer that he is not confident in President Obama helping to protect the State of Israel.

Netanyahu and the other leaders must be involved in frenzied meetings behind closed doors on what avenue to take. The probability of striking Iran eventually is almost guaranteed and now Israel's leaders must determine when the best time would be.

Israel cannot afford to wait until after the election and hope that either the re-elected Obama administration will back them or that Romney actually wins the election. Both of those outcomes are truly up in the air.

But should Israel launch its attack immediately, some weeks before the general election, the Obama Administration will be forced into backing the attack rather than losing the election.

The actual skirmish will not be bloodless for Israel or the United States but is necessary for Israel's survival and although the U.S. is weary of wars, we have little choice but to back up our ally.

My friend Pete

I listen and read from both liberal and conservative sources.  I try to be rational but I know that's not quite objective!

On facebook, which I became a member of a couple of years ago, I have a "facebook friend", the mayor of a small town in Washington, Pete, who is very vocally liberal.  Sometimes I agree with what he says but mostly I am shocked at his, but mainly his "friends", vigorous defamation of all that is conservative. 

I believe, like many others, that candidate Romney is somewhat liberal in his views.  I am disappointed with this choice as I thought he wasn't the best of the choices but that's neither here nor there.

Recently, Mayor Pete had a diatribe on facebook about how evil Romney was and how could he do what he was doing in criticizing President Obama over the recent attacks in the middle east resulting in the death of our Libyan Ambassador and three others. 

I have to agree with Mayor Pete on this because I doubt that Romney would do much different. 

But then Mayor Pete made this comment and I quote, "A man that has experienced poverty has empathy for others the way a man who has never experienced hardship never could. A Community Organizer vs a Venture Capitalists. One sees people's needs and value and the other sees people as either Assets or Liabilities. I really don't see any similarity. One is a Pragmatic Centrist and the other is an Opportunist doing exactly what he is told."

So I being the sarcastic individual that I can be replied that I agreed with his last sentence, in that Romney is a Pragmatic Centrist while Obama is doing exactly what he is told....

I knew that wasn't what Mayor Pete meant but it isn't that far off from being true, at least in my mind! 

The problem I have with Mayor Pete and his ilk is that they don't have any wiggle room for their man to be wrong.  I disliked President Bush's policy on illegal aliens and thought that he and President Obama were close on at least that ideal.  Mayor Pete and his real life secretary and facebook friend, Diane, along with their friends cannot admit to one thing being wrong with their man....why is that?

Why is it that I can truly not be happy with Candidate Romney and find many faults with him yet they cannot find ONE fault with their own candidate?  I found lots wrong with the latter President Bush and aired them openly.  Why is it impossible for them to find one fault with their own party? 

To me this completely rigid look at the world is scary to say the least.  No matter what Obama does, they will love it.  If he goes to war with Iran tomorrow they will love it.  Yet, I find myself(and there are many like me including the liberals most hated foe, Rush Limbaugh, who started this ruckus on facebook) more like a yo-yo and going back and forth on stuff the more conservative candidates do.  How can the liberals be so blind that everything their candidate does is right?

One day I made a comment on one of Mayor Pete's rants that President Clinton was pretty embarrassing when it came to women and Pete actually responded that at least President Clinton was trying, at the time of Monica, to be faithful and fix his marriage.  I truly almost fell out of my chair on that comment....truly is he and his followers that blinded?

My Newest Novel: The Fate of a Bullet

For a few months now I have been working on converting a short story idea into a full length novel.  Just a couple of weeks ago, I finally came up with a name: BullettBob: The Fate of a Bullet.  Everyone says you can't put two "bullets" in the title so that may have to change.

The story just passed over 52,000 words yesterday and I am still very happy with it. 

This story is truly captivating.  It's an introspective action/adventure starring none other than ME!!! My personality and experiences(enhanced greatly!).  Yes, I have other people read it so that I do get a more objective view of how the story is going.

It's the story of a Border Patrol Agent who is thrown into a new career as an FBI Agent.  Bob is a social misfit yet has the perserverance to not give up.  He is assigned to the Los Angeles office in his third year.  Bob is trying to shine so on his own time, and barely approved, he is working on getting associated with an outlaw motorcycle gang. Mainly by hanging out at a bar often frequented by members of the OMG. 

The story turns exciting quickly with twists and turns that I DON'T even expect.  AS I am writing this story, it just seems to jump out onto the paper.  Someone asked if I use an outline and honestly I seldom do.  I will mull over the story while I am not working on it and then it will hit me how the next scene will play out.  It's truly, truly, truly exciting even for me to watch the characters develop; to watch the action occur and to watch the romance develop!!

I love this story and hope that I can finish it by fall....

Bob