ISRAEL SURROGATE STRATEGY UPDATE

Sorry to hear that your posting days are almost over, Dave. In the meantime, this is part of a great post from Stanley Kurtz at NRO regarding the Israeli surrogate strategy needed with regard to taking out Iran's nukes:

Yeah, going into Iraq was the right thing. The real problem is that it was only the least we could do, and not nearly enough to take care of the problem. In the game of nuclear terror, I fear it's the rogue states who have the advantage. All they need is a bomb or two. Maybe Israel will do our dirty work for us in Iran. Ahmadinejad's wild remarks have made that a lot easier to contemplate politically, not only in Israel, but here and in Europe. But the Iranians are hiding what can be hidden, and the Koreans may even now be selling what can be sold. Meanwhile, the Democrats are too busy purging Joe Lieberman to have figured out we're at war. Even our hawks are more focused on the democracy issue than the nuclear threat. Israel at least understands that they are just a bomb away from disaster.

Given that, in today's political climate here - with Democrats making the war about whether or not we're upsetting the rest of the world by not playing nice enough, and Republicans backtracking on the whole notion of ending nuclear proliferation due to their being on the defensive because we found no WMD in Iraq, we lack the temerity to really go after Iran, Syria or North Korea - if Israel doesn't do it, no one will.

I recommend you breathe deeply. Promotes living.