…if Americans fall for this sort of contorted historical analysis, we’ll have only ourselves to blame. Instead of giving “ironclad” guarantees that we will launch preventive war, we’d be better served if Obama merely reminded Netanyahu that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak doesn’t think Iran is an existential threat, and that the former head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, has called an attack on Iran the “the stupidest thing I ever heard.”
