In interview, Obama says he's not bluffing on Iran

President Obama does not understand the real problem. He is concerned with nuclear proliferation if Iran gets the bomb and does not understand that Iran itself is the main problem, that Iran cannot be deterred and that Iran is looking forward to a nuclear war.

Apparently President Obama is more concerned that an Israeli strike on Iran would make the Iranian regime less isolated by portraying itself as a victim than he is concerned that the absence of an Israeli strike would make Israel non existent.

President Obama still does not understand why Netanyahu does not have a choice. It was clearly stated in an article by Ari Shavit in Haa’aretz:

“A few years ago Netanyahu held an in-depth discussion with Middle East expert Bernard Lewis. At the end of the talk he was convinced that if the ayatollahs obtained nuclear weapons, they would use them. Since that day, Netanyahu seems convinced that we are living out a rerun of the 1930s.”

Here is what Bernard Lewis says: During the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the United States had nuclear weapons but both knew that the other was very unlikely to use them. Because of what was known at the time as MAD—mutually assured destruction. MAD meant that each side knew that if it used a nuclear weapon the other would retaliate and both sides would be devastated. And that's why the whole time during the Cold War, even at the worst times, there was not much danger of anyone using a nuclear weapon," says Mr. Lewis. But the mullahs "are religious fanatics with an apocalyptic mindset. In Islam, as in Christianity and Judaism, there is an end-of-times scenario—and they think it's beginning or has already begun." So "mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent—it's an inducement."

See MAD is Dead www.madisdead.blogspot.com

Mladen Andrijasevic of NY 12:05PM March 02, 2012