PERISCOPE: “Israel: Iran Nukes: Out of Reach,” Dan Ephron, Newsweek, 29 September 2008.

Retired Army general and previous CENTCOM boss John Abizaid, speaking at Marine Corps University (I last spoke there on the day of Art Cebrowski’s funeral in 2005) “appeared to echo the thinking of at least some in the upper echelons of the U.S. military: Israel is incapable of seriously damaging Iran’s nuclear program.”

Abizaid previously stated, also in my vein, that Israel and the West could handle a nuclear Iran with the usual deterrence strategy.

Naturally, I continue to view Abizaid as a very smart and realistic observer.