significant reasons why Mr. Cheney's hopes of attacking Iran have been dashed
First you say they didn't listen and they invaded and now you say they will listen and not attack. Hersh says VP Cheney was brainstorming provocation theories recently, so unless someone hit VP Cheney between the eyes and knocked some sense into his head more recently, I don't think your argument is compelling.
The US will undoubtedly, if covertly, support any such attack, but not necessarily join in.
Military strategists would be brain dead if they allowed Israel to attack unilaterally even with US support. [your last paragraph] Israel does not have the capabilities of neutralizing or minimizing Iranian military responses. Their only concern to to "knock out" the perceived nuclear threat. Thus for the US to stand idly by would be tantamount to opening oneself to attack. If these clowns rejected a fake Iranian boat attack then certainly they would reject the notion of allowing Iranian reprisals to US occupation forces. Israel has once again forced the US into another untenable position. The US has no choice but to carry the load and try to guarantee minimal response. And with the possibility of an even more blatantly right-wing PM in Israel, VP Cheney will have his minions working overtime to find a justification which would be suitable to sell an attack to Americans.
