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Indyk: U.S. More Likely than Israel to Bomb Iran
(Atlantic Monthly) Jeffrey Goldberg - Martin Indyk, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel (and now the vice president of the Brookings Institution), writes: "President Obama came into office determined not to use force against Iran....By the end of his first year, however, he reached the conclusion that engagement had failed and that it was time to put force back on the table." "This shift in rhetoric was backed by the deployment of missile defense systems to the Gulf and a bolstering of the U.S. force presence there....It was also backed by a Pentagon study of the requirements for a U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear facilities....The conclusion of that study was that, in the words of one senior White House official, 'The Iranians are not ten feet tall - we can do this'." "I would argue that, if current trends continue, it's actually more likely that the United States will bomb Iran than Israel."