Um, Earth to Gunslinger: we're not sending money to Israel to "defend them". We're sending money there to restrain them.
Do you really want Israel to mop up the Middle East it's way?
Think about that for a while before blurting out a reply.
By the way, what's your sentiments on that Iranian passenger plane that our warship blew out of the sky?
Tell that to the people who get LGB's dropped into the apartment next door from an F-16. I'll agree with you we restrain Israel, which perpetuates the conflict. Too bad we only get credit for arming them from the arabs.
Do you really want Israel to mop up the Middle East it's way? Think about that for a while before blurting out a reply.
I've thought about it plenty. It's their war, for their country, let them fight it. We didn't let anyone tell us how to handle our 'settlement problems', and we don't have them anymore.
By the way, what's your sentiments on that Iranian passenger plane that our warship blew out of the sky?
I don't know what the truth is. The Navy started lying from the beginning of the fiasco (saying our ship wasn't in their waters, etc). I've seen reports that the Iranians put an F-14 IFF squawkbox in the plane and put it on a deliberate course to fly at the Tico to provoke an incident. If you'd like to get into the real apples and oranges of that vis-a-vis the U.S.S. Liberty, we can.