Peace Means War... don't you understand?

A senior Pentagon source has reported on a recent discussion between two of the most senior generals and President Obama over the threat of a general war, triggered by an Israeli attack on Iran. 

According to the source, the generals conveyed personally to the President that it is the consensus of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CENTCOM, and all of the other top military brass that the Israelis must be told, in absolute clear terms, that any military attack on Iran is thoroughly unacceptable and would likely lead to world war.

President Obama was asked by the generals to convey this message to the Israeli Prime Minister, and the President reportedly refused. 

Obama responded that the U.S. has no control over Israeli policy and, if Israel is going to attack Iran, ``it would be better for us not to know in advance.'' (well, that lion is out of the bag, for sure)

This insanity puts the world that much closer to its end...but maybe this is all a bad dream and if we sleep on it it will go away. The generals reportedly told the President that if Israel attacks, there will be no more than a 72-hour window to force a cease-fire, or face general war.

A second source, who recently attended a meeting with high-level White House staff reported, with horror, that the top Obama aides were railing against Russia, China, and the BRIC, vowing to ``smash the BRIC.'' 

It was this kind of madness that dominated the President's still-ongoing trip to Asia, in which he put confrontation with China on a front burner with his inflamatory rhetoric and his announcements of expanded American military power projection into the Asia-Pacific theater.