Another Warning… Obama Administration Won’t Rule Out Firing on Israeli Jets If Iran Is Attacked

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 22, 2010, 5:22 AM

 

 

Another Warning… Obama Administration Won’t Rule Out Firing on Israeli Jets If Iran Is Attacked

The Obama Administration sends out another warning… To Israel.

Demonstrators in Israel protest Barack Obama.
The Obama Administration won’t rule out firing on Israeli jets if Iran is attacked by Israel.
The Danger Room reported, via Mere Rhetoric:

America’s top military officer wouldn’t rule the possibility today of U.S. forces firing on Israeli jets, if Israel launched a pre-emptive strike on Iran.
In a town hall on the campus of the University of West Virginia, a young Air Force ROTC cadet asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen to respond to a “rumor.” If Israel decided to attack Iran, the speculation went, those jet would need to fly through Iraqi airspace to reach their targets. That airspace is considered a “no-fly” zone by the American military. So might U.S. troops shoot down the Israeli jets, the airmen asked the chairman, if they breached that airspace?
Mullen tried to sidestep the question. “We have an exceptionally strong relationship with Israel. I’ve spent a lot of time with my counterpart in Israel. So we also have a very clear understanding of where we are. And beyond that, I just wouldn’t get into the speculation of what might happen and who might do what. I don’t think it serves a purpose, frankly,” he said. “I am hopeful that this will be resolved in a way where we never have to answer a question like that.”

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this.
In September 2009, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former foreign adviser to US president Jimmy Carter and current advisor to Barack Obama, called for the US to shoot down Israeli jets.