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There are three problems with this argument. The first is that even some of Netanyahu's own ideological allies don't buy it. Netanyahu and many Republican politicians—knowing that the American public doesn't want war—insist that there's a diplomatic alternative to the current deal. But over the years, key conservative foreign-policy experts, have said exactly the opposite. Eliot Cohen, a former Bush administration official who teaches at John Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies, has written that, "The choices are now what they ever were: an American or an Israeli strike, which would probably cause a substantial war, or living in a world with Iranian nuclear weapons, which may also result in war, perhaps nuclear, over a longer period of time. Understandably, the U.S. government has hoped for a middle course of sanctions, negotiations and bargaining that would remove the problem without the ugly consequences. This is self-delusion." According to Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations, "The only credible option for significantly delaying the Iranian nuclear program would be a bombing campaign." The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol has argued that, "It's long since been time for the United States to speak to this regime in the language it understands—force. ... We can strike at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and weaken them. And we can hit the regime's nuclear weapons program, and set it back." And over the last month alone, two other prominent hawks, John Bolton and Joshua Muravchik, have penned op-eds entitled, "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran" and "War With Iran is Probably Our Best Option." Netanyahu may sincerely believe that there's a preferable diplomatic alternative to last week's deal. But it's telling that for years now, many on his ideological side have disagreed.
Comment: Pathocrats myopically think that appealing to the baser instincts of their opponents will magically create the opposite outcomes. It is a fallacy. It is because of this banal thinking we are in the current state of the world. While the US and Israel may be experiencing a momentary unzipping at the hip, neither have been the "shining stewards of the peace" they claim to be. Just like US citizens...Iran is guilty before being charged for a crime they have not yet, nor may ever, commit. We can only hope that the Israeli hand no longer fits the US glove and the US congress will come to its senses.