Bombing Iran

On the one hand, it's pretty hard to envision Barack Obama--whose candidacy was partly premised on reconciling America with the Muslim world--launching a military strike on Iran's  nuclear facilities. 


On the other hand you have data points like Jeffrey Goldberg's latest Atlantic opus, in which White House officials insist that "President Obama has by no means ruled out counterproliferation by force." Goldberg spends some time looking at the question of whether and how Israel might coordinate with Washington should Bibi Netanyahu decide that only force can deny Ahmadinejad and Khamenei the bomb

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/13/bombing-iran/#ixzz0wWhIiVW0