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Daily Dish

Petraeus Echoes Netanyahu

The Daily Dish
April 1, 2009

Israel's threat to bomb Iran is real. A small question: if an ally launches a war that directly threatens precipitating a global conflict in which the US would be directly affected, and if that ally does so in defiance of the pleas of the US government, is it still an ally?

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