Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell Israel U.S. Will Attack Israeli Jets if They Try to Attack Iran

In appeasing the Ayatollahs, the Obama administration is forcing the Israelis to act. If the Israelis believe that Iran is a real threat they will act. When they do so, the price of oil will go through the roof, and the American economy will suffer.

Obama is aware of this, yet he persists in appeasement.

Obama only acts when it benefits Obama. So ask yourself - how does an attack by Israel on Iran benefit Obama? He probably believes that the electorate will turn to him in a downturn driven by substantially higher oil. It's not true, but that's probably what he believes and that's why we are where we are.

This article has a major error. The massive attack on the United States "Liberty" by Israeli pilots was NOT a "mistake" as the article tries to lead us to believe. I think this distortion/error is intentional because the facts of the attack are well known by all news persons.

The Israelis did a fly over of the Liberty several times to identify it. The Liberty was flying a big American flag. It was marked as a US Naval vessel. The Liberty had radio contact with the Israeli fighter jets, identifying the ship. They were able to wave to Israeli pilots who waved back.

Then the attack happened. It was a massive killing attack on the United States vessel by the Israelis. The Liberty called for help to a US carrier nearby who was ordered to with hold any help to the US vessel under attack. About 100 American sailors died and many more were wounded. The Liberty did not sink, although Ireali pilots tried to sink it.

President Johnson hushed up the affair where Americans military were killed by Israel. Nothing was done.

Read the book written by one of the sailors on the Liberty.

It is interesting after so many years, writers like the author of this article still continue the effort to cover up how our boys were killed and by whom.

Finally a US official with the courage to tell it like it is. The US needs to stop once and for all its complicity with Israel's brutalities.

why is it that America and Israel India and the list goes on have the right to have nuclear power and technology and which in the case of Israel and America in particular has been used to cause alot of causalities amongst innocent children babies women civilians...why doesn't the world ask these countries to disarm...we want to also know their nuclear capabilities and what nuclear mass destruction products they have in their possesion and make them disarm and give up their bullying attitude.

One thing that always bogs my my is who has the wright to develop, process, and keep nuclear weapons. All these countries; viz: Britain, France, Brazil, USA, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan, India, South Africa, and North Korea have NUCLEAR WEAPONS. If these countries mentioned don't make moves to get rid of nuclear weapons, asking Iran to stop developing hers is absolute HYPOCRISY. It makes not one atom of sense to me. We human have potential knowledge to develop nuclear weapons, but not enough knowledge to look for peace. This takes me to the "REVELATION" in the Bible that predicted nuclear proleferations here on Earth ( The Unquenchable Fire). The United Nation is becoming a toothless bulldog. The G20 is now usurping the powers of UN, hence rendering her (UN) ineffective.

I read a book by this guy in college 40 years ago. Had I known what a moron he is, I would have dropped the course.

""This is all leading up to the 7 yr peace treaty in the middle east. The Rapture will soon happen and the antichrist will appear right after. Cant everyone see that the book of revelation is being fullfilled? Pray that you will be spared from all that will happen in the tribulation. God's will be done""

This is EXACTLY what is wrong with these IDIOTS. How is this any different than what filth the Taliban spews.

I think Iran must be confronted about their nuclear ambitions, but why does Israel get off scott free? You never hear anything about Israel building and stock piling nuclear weapons. When was the last time the UN inspected their nuclear sites. They are not held to the same standard as any other country in the middle east. Could it be that our media companies are deathly afraid of offending the Israeli lobby this is why we never hear about this subject in our media. After Israel has been warned about over flying Iraq to strike Iran, if they choose to do so in spite of it their planes should be treated just like any other hostile planes that would over fly Iraq, their planes should be shot down before they light the match that comsumes the middle east and signs death warrants for our troops. The hawks who want to start a shooting war with Iran should volunteer their sons and daughters to be the first in line to be deployed, or they should shut their mouths and go back under their rocks.
My thoughts on the subject, but I could be wrong :-)

If it isn't absolutely obvious by now that Israel is a de facto client state of the USA in the Middle East, then nothing will make it any clearer than the manner in which America looked "the other way" following the attack on the USS Liberty. Imagine the ferocious and brutal military response had that attack been launched by any other nation in the Middle East! The relationship between the USA and Israel continues to be a source of extreme danger to world stability and peace in the region. This view is, of course, very unpopular among American friends of Israel, but one of the hallmarks of a true friend is truth-telling. What sort of "friend" lets a "friend" endanger oneself and/or the world without speaking truth to that "friend". The Holocaust is NOT a blank check. Memories of horrific victimization are NOT a justification for becoming an aggressive victimizer. The MANIPULATION of legitimate compassion and yearning for human justice must cease. In its place must be exercised a more balanced, realistic and fact-based American foreign policy, free of such heavy influence as that exerted by AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee). While such a more balanced foreign policy is highly unlikely, it is nevertheless more rational and far more desirable and productive. Unfortunately, there is little evidence to indicate that Obama's administration will undertake any REAL reassessment of our nation's Middle East policy. Blind support of Israel's continued expansion of settlements in Gaza (in SPITE of American lip service to the contrary)is just ONE telltale indicator of our REAL policy vis a vis Israel and the Middle East.

You can talk all you want, if Israel doesn't take care of the Iranians the next door they will be knocking on is the US of A. But by that time they should have missiles which could reach the Atlantic Shores with Nuclear War heads. WAKE UP SLEEPING Beauties !!As I see it you have two choices ;
1) Fight
2) Convert to Islam
No need to hurray our enemies have plenty of time to multiply and conquer the world.

There is no real Peace with Muslims, only conquer. No moderate Muslims , this is only talk to fool the foolish. Don't believe any of them. If we don't show them that they must stay in their rat holes they will come to take our homes. They are already splitting up the booty between themselves, earmarking every house and business. Believe me, I have heard them arguing in Arabic, who will take what house!

WAKE UP AMERICAS

I really object to the use of the word "mistakenly" in your account of the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.

Please simply report what happened. We do NOT know if this incident was a mistake. In fact, there is a great deal of evidence that it may have well been an intentional attack. Using "mistakenly" shifts the entire tenor of the conversation. Even saying "the Israeli government asserts or claims that it was a mistake" would be a much more neutral and accurate reporting of this incident.

More information about this incident can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

The article is incorrect about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty being a "mistake"; Google to read the eye witness accounts of all the US servicemen who survived the subsequent strafing when in the water- it was intentional and a huge coverup. The subsequent commission was only a coverup.

Let's be clear; Israel dominates the foreign policy of the US and puts the US in a Catch-22. It is a country with an apartheid type democracy and never intends to give up the land that it is stealing from Palestinians - stall, stall, stall. Former prime ministers Menachem Begin aand Yitzhak Shamir were terrorists in the 1930-40s who helped found Israel by blowing up the King David Hotel and many Arab villages. We need the many talents of the Jewish people in this world, but not the blatant conceits of Zionists who feel entitled because they have a book they believe entitles them to do whatever to gain supremacy in the Levant.

And Jesus Told BARABAS :
The NEW JERUSELAM WIll not be BUILT BY MURDER AND UPRISING.......Go will fill the LAND as God has Filled the SEA.....

TO ALL THOSE WHO HATE ISRAEL,,,LET ME QUOTE THE BIBLE,,,,ZACARIAH CHAPTER 12
LE T ME REMIND YOU MR BREZINSKI .NO NATION WILL ATTACK ISRAEL, AND STAY UNPUNISHED BY THE WRATH OF THE LORD,,,,,ISRAEL WILL BE THE CAPITAL OF THE WORDL BIBLICY SPEAKING...ANY BODY READ EZEQUIEL CHAPTER 38....RUSSIANS STAY OUT OF MIDDDLE EAST .....IRANIANS,,ARABS,,PALESTINIANS ,,, ECT ECT,,, THE BEST YOU CAN DO IS LOOK FOR PEACE WITH ISRAEL... GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE...GOD BLESS U ALL NO OFFENSE FOR ANYBODY,,,, LUV U ALL,,BUT THE WORD OF GOD IS THERE,,IT WONT LIE ...

Israel will prevail.

There is no good outcome with regard to Israel, Iran and its quest for nuclear weapons. Iran is determined to acquire them and Israel is determined to prevent that. Neither will back down because both see their very survival at stake.

If Israel attacks Iran, the consequences would be disastrous and not just for the middle east. Oil prices would spike to unheard of levels, the entire world would be plunged into a depression that would at least rival and probably surpass the 1930s.- bye bye the current US standard of living.

The current pro-US regimes in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and most important, Pakistan, would almost certainly be overthrown by radical fundamentalists. The numbers of Islamic fanatics would mushroom and all of them would be aiming their terrorism at the US. Those 2 factors combined would mean that whatever restraint the Pakistani military currently practices over the militants would end and a nuclear terrorist attack on the US would be a real possibility. So the nightmare that we are trying to avoid - nuclear armed terrorists - would happen anyway.

On the other hand, if Iran does acquire nuclear weapons it would be able to dominate its neighbors and whatever influence the US currently has in the region would be reduced to something close to zero. Iraq, already heavily influenced by Iran, would throw the US out and position itself under Iran's nuclear umbrella. Because they would have little choice, the Sunni regimes in the region would realign with Iran as the preeminent Islamic power. Even Turkey would have a hard time maintaining its pro-western stance and would probably withdraw from NATO.

What people should remember was that there were those that argued for a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union in the late 40s because the idea of a nuclear armed Russia was unimagineable given that they had an avowed aim to wipe out capitalism. Is that so very different from what we're hearing now?

Not all Iranians are madmen. The real holders of power in Iran (and that doesn't include Ahmadinejad) know that the real advantage of having nuclear weapons is just that - to have them. They know that any attack against Israel or any other US ally would result in their obliteration, just as the Soviets and Chinese knew it. The world will adjust to a nuclear armed Iran just as it did to a nuclear armed Russia, China, India and Pakistan because it has no other real choice.

Mark T - on your "Israel enjoys a regional monopoly on nuclear weapons" comment. And they've used those weapons how many times? Better the devil you know. In fact, I don't recall them ever threatening to use those weapons. Can you say the same for Iran who is threatening to wipe other sovereign nations off the map?

And I can't believe people still think Iran is not trying to build weapons. Geez, even the Obama administration has come out with timelines on what they will have and when.

Scarier still is the fact that people actually think we should be taking foreign policy advice from the Carter administration. Were you people even alive back then? Please, President Obama, do what you have been doing and continue to ignore Carter and his people.

If Israel wants war, let it be! Mr. Obama, PLEASE make sure that no U.S soldier is murder in this one! Just get our soldier out of there to go back to their families! I am tire of this Israel-Palestina-Iran nonsense.

The evidence that Iran is actually building a bomb is contradictory and equivocal at best. The National Intelligence Estimate report released in 2007 says that the evidence suggests that Iran has stopped work on building a bomb as early as 2003.

Similarly, the recent report on Iran by the IAEA praised the country for its co-operation in inspections and cast doubt that Iran was diverting nuclear material to military uses.

Unlike Israel, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, and has a guaranteed right to enrich uranium. The fact that it is enriching uranium does not in itself prove that it is building a bomb.

There is no reason for Israel to attack the Iranians, as international law does not permit countries to attack each other simply for disliking each other's governments. The fact that the Israelis are threatening Iran in this manner proves once again their role in destabilizing the area. Kudos to Brzezinski for recognizing this.

Well Zbiggy is back in the headlines again, almost like on the day he was Carter's Security Advisor and led the brilliant negotiations with the Ayotallahs which helped legitimize them in power even as they were holding American hostages.
Zbiggy has a long record of anti- Israel sentiment. This remark is no surprise. The question is why he chose to make it now when there is no special sign of any Israeli attack.
I don't know the answer.