Former Mossad Head Praises Obama as "Courageous;" Blasts Romney as Harming US, Israel

by: lowkell

Mon Oct 22, 2012 at 12:05:32 PM EDT

...What Romney is doing is mortally destroying any chance of a resolution without war. Therefore when [he recently] said, he doesn't think there should be a war with Iran, this does not ring true. It is not consistent with other things he has said. [...]

Obama does think there is still room for negotiations. It's a very courageous thing to say in this atmosphere.

In the end, this is what I think: Making foreign policy on Iran a serious issue in the US elections - what Romney has done, in itself - is a heavy blow to the ultimate interests of the United States and Israel...

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Romney has been very costly on Russia [...] If you want to create a situation, where the only way to go about things is to go back to the Cold War, that is what is being done here. It's very dangerous.

I don't think the US public wants to go to another world war over values in this way. If it persists, it will be a slide down a very slippery slope.

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Romney has said, Anybody could have decided to finish bin Laden. Even [Jimmy] Carter. This again was a mistaken concept. President Obama didn't just decide [one day to kill bin Laden]. The operation to end the life of bin Laden necessitated multiple points of decision by him. I know from operations I have been involved with on a smaller scale.

They are very intricate. You don't just give the order and wait in your office for commanders to come three months later and say it's done. No. This kind of operation, which is accident prone, hands on operation, one has to make one decision after the other [...] It took courage and cool headedness and leadership. Anyone who says it was an easy thing to decide, doesn't understand what he's talking about. [Such comments] show a total lack of understanding of what this kind of operation means.

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The Libya story, the way it's being used, is a sordid manipulation.