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Philadelphia
- Daniel
Pipes (photo), pro-Israel director of the 'Middle East Forum' (a Philadelphia-based research
institute) and 'Distinguished visiting fellow' at the Hoover Institution of Stanford
University, knows, how US president Barack Obama could salvage his tottering administration.
The unprecedented collapse in his polls needs - according to Pipes - a dramatic gesture to change the public perception of him as a lightweight, bumbling
ideologue.
Obama should give orders for the U.S. military to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapon
capacity. Circumstances are - according to Pipes - propitious. By eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat, Obama sends a message to American's friends and
enemies. Polling shows, Americans are still backing an attack on the Iranian nuclear
infrastructure. Just as 9/11 caused voters to forget George W. Bush's meandering early months, a strike on Iranian facilities would dispatch Obama's feckless first year down the memory hole and transform the domestic political
scene. The time to act is - according to Pipes - now.
