[lbo-talk] Stratfor on Obama, Yahoo and Natural Growth

[Marv Gandall]

This might be so if there were public support for an attack on Iran, which
there is not. Even the American Jewish community opposes such an attack,
according to a poll before last year's election by the American Jewish
Committee, and not all those polled were Democrats. Hawkish opinion within
the Republican ranks was not strong enough to dissuade the Bush
administration from making it known that it had warned the Ohmert government
against an air strike.

Given the views of their constituents, a split in Democratic ranks would be
more likely precisely if the administration did NOT appear to be distancing
itself from an assault on Iran's nuclear facilities by the Netanyahu
government.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven L. Robinson" <srobin21 at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Stratfor on Obama, Yahoo and Natural Growth


> Were Obama to do that, it would split his party wide open.   It is hard to
> conceive of him doing that. SR
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Marv Gandall
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> To: LBO-Talk
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> Sent: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:53:57 +0000 (UTC)
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> Today, unlike in 1967, the Obama administration, rather than giving the
> green light to a preemptive Israeli strike by the Netanyahu government
> would
> almost certainly treat it as an act of defiance and be forced to distance
> itself in the interest of US foreign policy. This would contribute to a
> climate of public opinion which would be conducive, IMO, to the largest
> mass
> demonstrations in the US and Europe since the buildup to the Iraq
> invasion -
> including within a growing segment of the American-Jewish community.
>
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