It feels like 1999 all over again and I'm just hoping that means the Yankees win the World Series also.
A year ago our intelligence community told us that Iran had stopped their nuclear weapon program in 2003 which I don't think anybody believed but was probably said because they were so spooked after having been so wrong on Iraq. What I found interesting was that we supposedly figured this all out by hacking into a couple of Iranian computer networks which if the service is provided by Time Warner. I have to imagine that in a Spy vs Spy world that somebody somewhere may have feared that the Americans were listening in on their conversations and maybe....just maybe....they would put stuff like this into their emails
"So we are not going be making any more bombs and will instead focus on trying to make an electric car"
The Brits, Germans and French didn't buy our intelligence (can you blame 'em?) And they insisted that their nuclear ambitions hadn't ended and now we are retreating on our intelligence for the second time with a country with the letters I, R and A in them.
I think the US is hoping Israel decides it's in their own interest to bring down that new reactor as an exchange for some considerations the Israeli's will make with the Palestinians. This way the US can both avoid the direct response with the Iranians and thus win some support from the Arab Muslims but maybe also see that as a way to press the Israeli's to stop the settlement building.
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