Israeli Warnings Will Not Change U.S. Assessment On The Need For Military Action

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel hold a joint press availability in the Oval Office July 6, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Netanyahu’s Enrichment Warning Not Swaying U.S., Says Pentagon Policy Chief -- Kevin Baron and Gordon Lubold, Foreign Policy


Pentagon policy chief Jim Miller said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warning this week that Iran would have nearly enough bomb-grade uranium to build a nuclear weapon in six months does not change the U.S. assessment of the need for military action.

Miller, under secretary of defense for policy, in an exclusive interview with the FP National Security channel on Wednesday, said that enrichment was just one factor in the U.S. calculation of how long it would take for Iran to have a working nuclear bomb.

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My Comment: This is one of those situations where I hope that our intelligence agencies are "on the ball" .... because if they are not, I can easily see many "worse case scenarios" being spun in the not so distant future.

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