Goldberg, Israel, and Iran

Jeffrey Goldberg pens a trenchant op-ed in the New York Times arguing—correctly, I think—that the chief challenge for the next president will be preventing a nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland by Islamist terrorists.

He is also on the money in scorning Barack Obama for pledging a law enforcement approach to deal with such an eventuality. Goldberg is correct in saying that our focus has to be on preempting an attack, not on punishing the perpetrators. [snip]

[the] obvious fact that both Hamas and the Iraqi Special Groups—along with Hezbollah, the Syrian Baathist regime, and other entities—represent different facets of Iran’s attempt to dominate the Middle East, thereby driving the U.S. out of the region - and perhaps even driving Israel out of existence...

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