I hope he saw what mahem and murder (killed/wounded/destruction ) was wreaked by 2 youngsters and a couple of pressure cookers Imagine what a dirty bomb could do

smacks of smack talk. However, his visit has nothing to do with weapons or aircraft. It is a coy for: "Operation Deter Iran" is a go ahead....shortly in theaters near you.

Obama and the media will see that these atrocities are not associated with Islam or Islamic ideology. Even as we read this, Obama is hatching plausible explanations. We will be back to politically correct things as usual; back to protecting Iran in short order, is my best guess.

and prepare for the mop up operations...!

Seven years have passed and Israel cannot do a damn thing.Stop day-dreaming

Seven years have passed and Israel cannot do a damn thing.Stop day-dreaming

Israel should go for the earlier option.

stop fishing on the lakes and move to Gaza and get a real history lesson......your comments consistently show a lack of understanding of the Middle East................

As Ahmadinejad played his game with the Bush administration the American "threat" was a series of warnings in the form of traffic light signals that hinted "permission" to Israel to attack. In the end the charade was tough talk by administration politicos followed by, warnings of "unanticipated consequences" from a US military clearly unenthusiastic about yet another possible failure of American arms in the region. Hagel’s representation of American policy is more of the same, except clearly past policy of kicking the can down the road has resulted in the near certainty of payoff for that non-policy: an Iranian Bomb. And so the “gloves come off” and Israel is again being used as threat. Not America accepting responsibility for a decade of ignoring, and thereby creating the problem. Let Israel do it. Let Israel take the blame for the global fallout, a repeat of the Iraq War inspired global economic catastrophe.

You joined the IDF instead of going to Iraq... No American blood and money will be going to fight Israel's wars again...ever!!! If Gaza is so bad...it's because you Israeli's made it so... TATA

We'll talk if and when they do.....

and I would never trust him I assure you he would be happy if this conflict came to an end even if it meant the death of a few million Jews

"stop building in Jerusalem", "apologize to Turkey", "resume talks with no preconditions", and all other absurd and inconsiderate requirements by the US. and for what? all they would do is sell weaponry to Israel and let Israel do the dirty work and take the heat for it. with frieds like these, who needs enemies. Americans are so lost in their values and integrity epitomized in the election of the current president.

hegel is relaying the message from obama that israel is on her own.

Idiotann, not a single drop of American blood was spilled on behalf of Israel, unless it was spilled by the American Jews who made aliyah. On the other hand, how many thousands of American lives were lost trying to bring democracy to Arabs? Are you really so stupid as to think that America's involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Waziristan and Libya was on behalf of Israel? Well, it wasn't. We warned you against all those incursions (they were all remarkable failures, just as we predicted). Yes, Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. They're all in Syria now. Just another example of incredible American ineptitude. We warned you that that is precisely what would happen, and you didn't listen. A joint Israeli-United States effort against Iran would send the appropriate message, but make no mistake. If the United States is too cowardly to join the effort, Israel will get the job done by itself. We always do. Just stay out of our way. And if Iran dares to attempt to get Hamas and Hezbollah to attack Israel, Gaza and Lebanon will feel Israeli wrath, too. It won't be pleasant. But it will be very, very effective.

But you would not understand it, now would you. anti-Semites?

ANOTHER TOURISM TRIP= WASTE OF TAX PAYER MONEY.. MAY ABBA FATHER GOD= LORD-KING YESHUA=JESUS CHRIST=MESSIAH GUIDE-DIRECT ISRAEL..I PRAY IN JESUS NAME

IRANIAN JUNE ELECTIONS WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING- JUST A USA STALL TACTIC

I see, perpetuating Jewish victimhood again. Do they show mass murdering Bolshevik Jews in a bad light also? No, they honor perverts like Ilya Ehrenburg and his bloody lot as outstanding members of the tribe. You can't just pick what you like and declare it to be history. American Jewry and Israel cooperated with leading Soviet Jews in building their own Zionist empire of lies.

Iran can't complete the job. The nuclear plants are now old and falling apart.