New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller made a good point during her Friday appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe — but not about the extent to which the shadow of the universally reviled Iraq War looms menacingly over Donald Trump’s legacy as he contemplates joining Israel in its attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Rather, she noted that the president’s decision to revert to his nebulous “two weeks” formulation while he waits for Iran to come to its senses (so far, no sign of that) “puts Israel in a really tough strategic situation.”
“Israel, as we know, is quickly running out of interceptors to intercept the missiles that Iran is lobbing,” she observed. “So, it’s a question of who has more missiles, who has more interceptors.” In addition, if America withholds its 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrators, Bumiller noted that Israel’s plan B for neutralizing Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant involves a significant deployment of Israeli special forces to Iran to take the plant out of commission “manually.”
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