"Global View" columnist Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal has penned a chilling "what-if"
analysis of a U.N. Security Council meeting, circa January 2010.
In Stephens' formulation, the U.S., via an abstention, paves the way for passage of a U.N. resolution calling for Israel to give up its nukes and submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities. Reflecting the hostile turn in U.S. policy towards Israel, a senior Pentagon official says, "The Israelis need to look at this U.N. vote as a shot across their bow...if they want to start a shooting war with Iran, we won't have their backs on the Security Council."
It has been said that good fiction has the ring of truth. Sadly, what would have been unimaginable a year ago rings all too true today.
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