Opinion | Netanyahu tries to rouse U.S. from slumber on Iran
“You don’t understand what the Iranians are doing to you here,” the Israeli intelligence source told his American interlocutors. “You’re looking at Syria, but you should look at Afghanistan. All the trouble you’re facing in Afghanistan, that’s Iran. You can’t win there. Now, everything depends on Syria. If a clear red line isn’t drawn for the Shiites and the balance in Syria falls in their favor, the clock will start to tick. And all this is happening while Pakistan is unstable, Saudi Arabia is raging, and all of your other allies are fighting for their survival.”
That said, Israel is not asking anyone for operations on the ground or needless wars, he emphasized. “We need you diplomatically, not militarily,” he explained. The United States and Russia are the two dominant powers on the world stage, and now they are both in the Middle East, and they need to lift their heads from day-to-day nonsense for a moment and look at the big picture.
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