| MAhmadinejad just can't stand people trying | | | | has reported. Yet, there's as many reports of |
| to make peace in the world, at least not | | | | Israel doing a first strike as the U.S.: |
| while Israel is a nation and there's one Jew | | | | maybe more. |
| left. While Bush was meeting in Maryland with | | | | |
| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and | | | | Iran's leadership is in a panic, with the |
| Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Mahmoud | | | | September bombing by Israel of a nuclear |
| Ahmadinejad was mocking the meeting. Peace | | | | installation in Syria and implied threats by |
| would be the worst thing in the world for him | | | | the U.S. of similar action in Iran. In |
| to see come about. | | | | response, Iranian President Mahmoud |
| | | | Ahmadinejad and other officials are "lashing |
| Abbas is currently in a bitter power struggle | | | | out in all directions." |
| with Hamas for control of Palestinian | | | | |
| territory. Hamas, which currently controls | | | | And we're worried about 2012? |
| Gaza, opposed negotiations and supports | | | | |
| continued armed resistance against Israel. | | | | If struck, there is little Iran could do to |
| Hamas, which the United States and Israel | | | | retaliate. Its air force is a sorry |
| label a terrorist group, won Palestinian | | | | collection of old U.S.-made aircraft left |
| legislative elections in 2006, ousting the | | | | over from the Iran-Iraq War, some |
| long-ruling Fatah party that Abbas heads. | | | | Russian-made fighters and homebuilt Saeqeh |
| Abbas dissolved the Hamas-led government | | | | jets modeled after the American F5 Tiger, an |
| earlier this year after Hamas forces seized | | | | aircraft last updated in the 1960s and |
| control of Gaza. | | | | rejected by the U.S. Air Force. But, Iran |
| | | | could foment terrorist attacks against the |
| As Iran continues to build it's nuclear | | | | U.S. and Israel, but, at best, they would be |
| capability, the watches and wonders. | | | | ad hoc events with little strategic impact, |
| | | | he adds. |
| Iran may be militarily impotent but a U.S. | | | | |
| first strike would throw the Middle East into | | | | Where this is going to go, no one knows, but |
| chaos while leaving Iran's nuclear program | | | | as the rhetoric increases, can anything good |
| largely intact, an Israeli military expert | | | | come from it? No one really wins! |