Highly unlikely, the war drums have been rolling for years. Israel is an angel, Iran is the devil. Done deal.
Its much more than just intelligence when you use computer viruses to sabotage nuclear reactors. Cyberwarfare can do a lot more damage than leaking/stealing secret documents. As per 2011 Defense Authorization Act, "the United States reserves the right to retaliate with military force against a cyber attack".
Not really. No one is going to go to war with Iran because it would create more problems than it would solve. That doesn't mean that there won't be military action but nothing like Iraq.
That doesn't explain why the 5+1 has softened their stance, leaving Netanyahu sputtering desperately. Nor does it explain why anybody would wait until after the completion of the very hardened facility at Fordow, along with Iran's stockpiling of material enriched to 20%. That's well over the hump towards weapons grade material, yet legit since they have a reactor that uses it. Not even the Bushistas were dumb enough or arrogant enough to attack. Unintended consequences are incalculable, which is why it probably won't happen, not even by Israel.
Of course. But nobody has been shown to have done that particular deed, and cyber warfare, by it's very nature, is extremely difficult (likely impossible) to trace back to its origins. Act of War? By Whom?
Iraq - mission accomplished
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?_r=1
oh, common!
Most of us didn't like the Magical Apology Tour either, although after he got that out of his system he's been pretty good at foreign policy. The intent of Fast and Furious was anything but good - arming the drug cartels to justify disarming Americans - but I'm not convinced that Obama was behind that. The BATFE (which evidently stands for some arcane spelling of bat shit crazy assholes) has done similar if not quite so egregious rogue operations under several Presidents not nearly so amenable to gun control and may well have done this on their own. Even Holder, while he clearly lied or was honestly if incompetently mistaken about when he knew, might have been briefed well into the operation and unaware of the true extents of the operation. I can see him being told essentially "We're monitoring the movement of legally purchased guns to the cartels in Mexico" rather than "We're facilitating the movement of legally purchased guns, some of which we bought, to the cartels in Mexico, and when people get killed by them we'll have ammo for gun control." May well have nothing to do with Obama, and in any case it's primarily about domestic gun control, not foreign policy. (Proof of this being that the Mexican authorities were not briefed or involved and the BATFE had no assets to track the guns inside Mexico.)
Gawd. Conspiracy theorists jumping to conclusions over gun ownership just reinforces the idea that extreme gun advocates are nuttier than a payday bar.
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