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Exactly. it's like folks here either don't consume news by airborneirish

or have no memory:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43481803 Israel admits striking suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxnet-was-work-of-us-and-israeli-experts-officials-say/2012/06/01/gJQAlnEy6U_story.html Stuxnet!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/iran-israel-mossad-nuclear.html How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran’s Nuclear Secrets

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/22/middleeast/israel-plan-iran-military-target-strike/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/22/middleeast/israel-plan-iran-military-target-strike/index.html Leaked audio: Israeli leaders drew up plans to attack Iranian military

And these articles are from the earlier part of the last decade. Israel is quiet and calculated. Maybe if Biden and Obama ceased the delusions of compromise with Iran on the Nuclear question and took a more hard line tack things would be vastly more peaceful.

We should be projecting immense power across to the other side of the table. Not only do we have nuclear warheads but we will not hesitate to use them when called to do so. Does that preclude a first strike possibility? No, it should not if the circumstances dictate it. Said differently, to properly project power everything should be on the table to be used without hesitation.

Note for dimwits: The above does not suggest, imply, or in anyway support the idea that the US should loosely threaten to use nuclear armaments in offensive capacities. Self defense measures can entail the threat of the use of nuclear weapons when deterence has failed and use of wmd by the enemy is probable.

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