The Associated Press reports the U.S. has agreed to sell Israel bunker-buster smart bombs. These bombs should be just the ticket for degrading Iranian nuclear facilities.
Drop 25 of these, mixed with a couple of tactical nukes fuzed for ground burst, and claim that the nuclear explosions are actually primitive Iranian weapons detonated by the Israeli high explosives. That scenario sounds, if not entirely plausible, at least possible. Those who want to believe will, and those who don't won't.
The Bush administration has created an interesting dilemma for the Democrat-controlled Congress. Congress has to approve the bomb sale. The Democrat's anti-war netroots will oppose the sale, but their many members who depend on the votes and contributions of American Jews to get reelected will want to approve it.
That is called sowing dissension in the ranks, or clever politics.
