On Israel and escalation into a regional war ... Lebanon - Iraq - Syria - Iraq and ultimately the ayatollahs of Iran

Nietzsche states:

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

An elderly commander-in-chief is incapable to calculate risks and consequences of escalation into a full blown war. Israel will not survive even with 200 nuclear bombs which are stacked as a M.A.D. option of the Armageddon. Too much military power do fools make idiots.

'Sapere aude'