Weakening of the will
Avner Cohen, the author of Israel and the Bomb , wrote an interesting Op-Ed in Haaretz today. In the article Avner Cohen analyze the effect of Israel’s inability to accomplish victory in the war with the Hezbullah on the Iranian nuclear plans.
I wholeheartedly agree with Cohen’s assessment that the west defeatism is a vital catalyst to the Iranian plans:
There is a feedback mechanism between Iranian belligerence and Western defeatism. Just as Iran today is more deterring than deterred, the reverse is true of the West. Just as Hassan Nasrallah likened Israel to a spiderweb, the Iranians now see the West as a dog that barks, but does not bite. The Western nations’ inability to enforce the Security Council resolution on Iran is the clearest expression of this syndrome.
Had Israel beaten Hezbollah, this might have endowed the West with a bit of confidence in a confrontation with Iran. Instead, Israel’s failure deepened the West’s fatigue syndrome along the entire front.
It is the same weakening of the spirit that Dalrymple pointed to discussing Europe internal situation that also server the Iranian regional and global strategy.
Can someone invoke Churchill?
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Rogel @ August 30, 2006