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Quote by: sdbest  If Israel, which is the only country in the region with nuclear weapons and which has a significant population of extremist fundamentalists, |
Extremist fundamentalist LOL that is rich. Israel has one largest left-wings of any country in the world. They have a lot of paranoid people, but that is for good cause.
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launched a preemptive nuclear attack on Iran, should the U.S. obliterate Israel? If so, why? If not, why not?
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Who talked about an Israel preemptive nuclear strike. Now your just making up facts to promote the anti-semitic damnation of Israel. If Israel does indeed attack Iran it will be to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, just like in the 80s when they took out Iraq's nuclear facility.
Israel would not launch a preemptive war on Iran, nevertheless a preemptive nuclear war.
However, I will answer your 0% scenario. If they preemptively nuke Iran, then absolutely not. We shouldn't support them and withdraw any previous support we did have for them. As we should for any country that preemptively nukes another country. In fact I am not so sure with a preemptive nuclear strike that we shouldn't invade Israel ourselves! But like I said that isn't even discussed and its disingenious to even suggest that was what Clinton was talking about. She was talking about Israel being preemptively nuked by Iran.
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As well, given Israel does have nuclear weapons, shouldn't it be responsible for retaliation rather than the U.S? If not, why not?
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If a tiny country like Israel is nuke, which would be followed up by a genocidial ground by Hezbollah, the Palestinians, Syrians and most likely Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians etc, then she is really not in a great position to counter attack.
Besides that Israel has fought every one of her wars solely by herself (except for '52) against mulitple enemies. Contrary to popular opinion, not even 1 US soldier has fought in any of Israel's wars!