horse of george

A ramping up of chatter, rhetoric viz Israel attack on Iran - hard to to tell if US and Israel acting in concert here in sense of trying to dramatically ratchet up pressure on Iran to relent - or possibly Israel and US working at cross purposes in sense of Israel making very public its grave concerns in attempt to increase pressure on Obama to treat the crisis with much more urgency - and then possibly US speaking out in attempt to stoke public fear of an Israeli strike and thereby I guess dissuade Israel from taking action? - it's a bit hard to make sense of things here - I mean Panetta publicly stating he thought there was a high likelihood of an Israeli strike by spring? - that seems damn odd - why make a public statement like that? I really can't see israel believing that such dramatic language works as intimidation and therefore I tend to doubt this rhetoric a joint effort at talking Iran to death. No, I get the feeling that this is about the possibility I raised before - Israel doesn't trust Obama and they're setting the table for action - I mean looking at it logically, if Israel has come to two conclusions - namely, they can't trust Obama and Iran with the bomb is not an acceptable option - then they really only have one choice here - strike while they can.