Thursday, June 12, 2008

A COUPLE OF CURIOUS LINES

McClatchy reports that the Iran War Drums are beating again ("Strike on Iran nuclear sites under discussion again") and I found two lines a little curious:
Considering Ahmadinejad's refusal so far to accept the international incentives, some analysts see support growing in Israel and the United States for a military strike.

"I think more and more people are looking to the military option as possibly the only thing that will work, and people are more and more feeling that negotiations won't work," said Meir Javendanfar, a co-author of "The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran."

As I noted below, only 7% of Americans favor taking military action against Iran, so the support must be growing among the neo-cons and the Likudniks, not Americans as a whole. The optimistic view would be that this is just a bluff to get Iranian concessions but the neo-cons DO like war.

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