Thread: ABC News: NSA approves shoot-down of Israeli jets in event of Iran attack

The national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, gave an interview to The Daily Beast in which he suggested President Obama should make it clear to Israel that if they attempt to attack Iran's nuclear weapons sites the U.S. Air Force will stop them.

"We are not exactly impotent little babies," Brzezinski said. "They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? ... We have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a 'Liberty' in reverse."

The USS Liberty was a U.S. Navy technical research ship that the Israeli Air Force mistakenly attacked during the Six Day War in 1967.

Brzezinski endorsed then-Sen. Obama's presidential campaign in August 2007, which at the time was portrayed in the media as a boost to Obama's foreign policy cred. The Washington Post reported: "Barack Obama, combating the perception that he is too young and inexperienced to handle a dangerous world, got a boost yesterday from a paragon of foreign policy eminence, Zbigniew Brzezinski."

Brzezinski was never an official campaign adviser, but Republicans jumped on the endorsement to push the meme that Obama wouldn't be a friend to Israel, as Brzezinski's views of Israel attracted criticism from some quarters in the American Jewish community.

“Brzezinski is not an adviser to the campaign,” former Ambassador Dennis Ross, then a senior adviser on Middle East affairs to the Obama campaign, said at the time. “There is a lot of disinformation that is being pushed, but he is not an adviser to the campaign. Brzezinski came out and supported Obama early because of the war in Iraq. A year or so ago they talked a couple of times. That’s the extent of it, and Sen. Obama has made it clear that on other Middle Eastern issues, Brzezinski is not who he looks to. They don’t have the same views.”

Brzezinski plays no role in the Obama administration; the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Brzezinski's comments come within the same week that the White House distanced itself from comments made by former President Carter, who said he thinks "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man."

-jpt

UPDATE: Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev told CNN that Israeli President Shimon Peres assured him that Israel would not attack Iran.

"This is the worst thing that one can imagine," Medvedev said. "What would happen afterwards? A humanitarian catastrophe, a huge number of refugees. And Iran would want revenge, and not only over Israel, but over other countries as well. The events in the region would become completely unpredictable. I think the scope of such a disaster would not be comparable to anything. Therefore, before taking the decision to launch any attacks, you need to think the situation through. It would be the most irrational way to deal with the situation. But my Israeli colleagues told me they do not plan to do that. And I trust them.`

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Xrael is a rabid dog and needs to be put down.

Failed to see where the NSA authorized anything. Just saw some fool opinion by a jerk Jimmy Carter employee.

Originally Posted by INRI

Xrael is a rabid dog and needs to be put down.

Should the US declare war on Israel?

Why would we do that? If Israel has the balls, good on them. We are in no position to stop them from taking any bit of action that they want. Once again, your Jew-hating masturbatory fantasies just make you look dumb.

Originally Posted by rocat

Should the US declare war on Israel?

Of course not.. We should just protect Iran from Israel's paranoia.

Originally Posted by kudzu

Of course not.. We should just protect Iran from Israel's paranoia.

Why would we want to protect Iran from having their chickens come home to roost? If they get attacked, they had it coming.

Originally Posted by INRI

Xrael is a rabid dog and needs to be put down.

More like the proof points to you being a ignorant camel fucking muslim rabid dog. And using carter administration morons words only proves your not to bright. CARTER was the biggest fool to hold the office and that is a historical fact. All carter is doing these days is reminding yet another generation why he was deemed the most ignorant president in history. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahaha

I hope they try to shoot down israeli planes as that order can only come from the head nigger obama. He wont be able to talk his black ass out of something like that. You talk about political suicide hhhhhhhhhhhahahah I know for a fact he doesn't have that kind of balls, hell why do you think korea and iran are so bold sense he got in office. THEY KNOW HOW WEAK THIS BITCH IS, HE DOESN'T HAVE THE BALLS TO DO SHIT. hE WANTS TO TALK LIKE HE CAN SMUCK THE WORLD AS HE HAS THE DEM. PARTY FOLLOWERS IN THIS COUNTRY. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHA

Originally Posted by kudzu

Of course not.. We should just protect Iran from Israel's paranoia.

SOUNDS like your radical muslim ass is the only one paranoid about anything jewish. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Originally Posted by bigac

Why would we want to protect Iran from having their chickens come home to roost? If they get attacked, they had it coming.

Iran 's interests are in shipping oil and gas to India and Pakistan and developing nuclear power and desalination. The have no intention of attacking Israel or anyone else.

Iran's future prospects are quite healthy.