More than anything, JuniperCobra demonstrated that the Obama administration has abandoned its previously stated pledge that it will not accept a nuclear-armed Iran.
This year's JuniperCobra exercise, they said, was part of the two nations' preparations for a joint response to a potential Iranian strike against Israel.
Back in Israel, for the past two weeks some 1, 400 US military personnel have been deployed throughout the country for the biennial JuniperCobra missile defense exercise with the IDF.
Rather than working with Israel to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the US is using JuniperCobra to noisily demonstrate that it merely hopes to deter Iran from using nuclear weapons once it acquires them.