“Pat, this whole thing, a pre-emptive strike on Iran, is wrong. I haven’t gotten a full night’s sleep since the president shared his plans with us and told us to keep a lid on it.”
“Maria, he hasn’t said he’s definitely going to war,” the vice president reminds her. “The way I see it, he’s making plans in case we have no choice but to go to war.”
“I hear you,” Sterling says, “speaking like a true-blue vice president. Remember, it’s me you’re talking to, not the media.”
“Maria, we have good intelligence coming from Whispering. This is something we can’t ignore. Besides, the Israelis are providing us with additional intelligence that certainly seems to confirm everything we have.”
“Why shouldn’t they, Pat? They’re no fools. They’ll get the full might and muscle of the United States to fight a war that’s really their war.”
“Maria, are you being objective? Or do I sense a touch of anti-Semitism in your thinking?”
Sterling stops and does some soul-searching. “Maybe,” she admits. “I’ve never trusted Jews. However, this isn’t just about Israel. We’ve just gotten out of Iraq, and that was a debacle. This could be a hell of a lot worse. I don’t want to sound paranoid, but it isn’t much of a stretch of the imagination to see this battle being brought to our shores this time. Not to mention that the political fallout from this could be the end of our party.”
Pat Devonshire hesitates a few moments before he responds. “Are you suggesting that we let it get out?”
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