Posted on 12/06/2006 3:38:13 PM PST by SJackson
----The senator followed up, "Can you assure the Israelis that they will not attack Israel with a nuclear weapon, if they acquire one?"
Gates responded coldly, "No, sir, I don't think that anybody can provide that assurance."---
The direction this taking is to throw the Israelis to the wolves. This will achieve three things for us. It will convince our enemies that we are low-born cowards and fools, open us up to aggression from every possible quarter, and it will assure eventual Armageddon.
So much negativism....so much....
Gates is a former DCI. He is a Washington insider.
His vocabulary and ours is different. He uses the 5th or 7th meaning of words, whereas most understand the 1st or 2nd.
Give it time. We will see. President Bush has made only a few bad Cabinet choices and they are already forgotten.
The SecDef is too important a choice for him to pick someone to counter his most important policy statements and speeches (several classics).
If Gates is against everything for which Bush has represented, I would expect to see Tony Snow's resignation forthwith, along with several others.
Peace, Yuletide and Prost Eins!
You are right, as long as Israel continues strengthening her ABM along with expanding & updating general IRMB missiles systems, coupled with hopefully replacing Olmert, Iran better think twice about a first (and last) strike), but Tehran & Damascus will most likely continuing inciting ground warfare & terror attacks via proxies Hamas & Hezballah.
OPEC fuels jihadist terrorism.
i'm not sure what you mean.
do you know who appointed the"iraq study group"?
was it the administration? or congress?
or did the group just set itself up?
the key to understanding the role of this group is finding out who set it up.
my guess is that the admin is already negotiating with both iran and syria, and that this report is designed to provide the cover for when the news leaks out.
according to wikipedia, the isg was set up by congress.
here is an interesting comment from the wiki article:
"Because Baker is in close contact with the White House throughout the study group's activities, it is likely that any recommendations will have been "tacitly approved in advance" by the president"
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