The same author who wrote the foreward of Two Minutes Over Baghdad

Submitted by PezDispenser (Israel), Jul 16, 2015 at 10:37

Dr. Pipes,

The late Barry Rubin, the same author who wrote the foreword of Two Minutes Over Baghdad, also wrote a blog article back in 2012 about how an Israeli attack on Iran will virtually guarantee that Iran will do everything to launch nuclear attacks on Israel once they rebuild their program, therefore the idea is strategically insane (unless the Iranians are about to launch).

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/01/israel-is-not-about-to-attack-iran-and.html

What are your thoughts about such an unintended consequence?

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