Top U.S. think tank warns against Israeli, American strike on Iran

[Scurrilous]

RAND Corporation sides with Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin, openly disagreeing with Netanyahu and Barak's belligerent stance on Iran.

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"The RAND Corporation, a think tank which advises the Pentagon, warned on Tuesday against an Israeli or American attack on Iran's nuclear reactors, and recommended the Obama administration try to "quietly influence the internal Israeli discussion over the use of military force."

In a document published in the think tank's periodical, Rand Review, RAND openly disagreed with the belligerent stance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, which are set to meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other high-ranking officials over the next several days. In doing so, and without naming names, RAND sided with former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former head of the Shin Bet Yuval Diskin.

RAND's call to prevent an Israeli strike and to come to terms with a nuclear Iran, on the condition that it does not test or deploy nuclear weapons, was published a week before the second round of the P5+1 talks with Iran in Baghdad, with a clear intention of influencing the Western position during the talks."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/top-u-s-think-tank-warns-against-israeli-american-strike-on-iran-1.430697

[azurnoir]

1. a bit more about RAND

Nevertheless, RAND began to delve into social issues, including education, and even health care. At this time too the think tank was building its own post graduate school from which it would influence leading political lights, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and author of "The End of History", Francis Fukuyama.

RAND would play a large part in the fall of the Soviet Union. It would begin with a group of "neo-conservatives" that met in Washington D.C. and would form the "Committee on the Present Danger". This committee came up with the idea that an arms race in which the Soviet Union could not keep up would eventually break the economic back of communism. It finally did bring about a peaceful result to a long cold war, finally culminating in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Government in 1991.

The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) was another idea that came out of RAND. RMA hypothesizes that there are certain developments in history and technology that allow one nation to dominate all others militarily for a long period of time. Examples would be the development of iron for weapons. The creation of gunpowder, the stirrup - allowing riders a firmer seat on horseback, the phalanx, and recently the blitzkrieg, as well as GPS systems allowing pinpoint accuracy of weaponry. The idea was to intelligently use advances in tactics and weapons so that wars could be fought quickly and almost painlessly (at least by the winner and even somewhat by the loser).

RMA doctrines would allow the United States to sweep over the Iraqi forces in the Iraq War.

http://www.indepthinfo.com/rand/

but even they say war with Iran is a bad idea

[jimmie]

2. How stupid

"on the condition that it does not test or deploy nuclear weapons"

Huh? Then what , oh think-tank ?

Hamas and Hezbollah already have their orders on backorder.

Now what, einsteins ?