Posted on 02/17/2012 10:28:20 PM PST by U-238
The U.S. shares intel with their Israeli counterparts( and vice versa) on a wide range of issues
The Israeli air defense system(Arrow 2) is collaboration between Boeing and IAI.
Maybe it’s time NATO gave membership to Israel and dropped Turkey.
I think it is Turkey’s time to choose. Iran or NATO.The problem is the nukes at Incirlik Air Base.There are about 90 B61 gravity bombs.U.S. and European officials still maintain that the political value of the nuclear weapons is enough to keep them deployed across Europe. In particular, they argue that the weapons are “an essential political and military link” between NATO members and help maintain alliance cohesion. That is Turkey’s leverage over the U.S. But that can be solved in one massive airlift from Turkey to Israel and U.S destroy the base.
“But that can be solved in one massive airlift from Turkey to Israel and U.S destroy the base.”
“from Turkey to Israel”
why not from Turkey to a U.S. Airbase in the independent state of Kurdistan - oh, that’s right, it’s not independent (yet???)
Kurdistan will not last too long. They are surrounded by too many “enemuies”. Turkey has made too many incursions there with Iranian blessing. Iran has basically wiped their professional class them off the map through their ‘executions’.As of May 2010, there are at least 16 other Kurdish political prisoners on death row. Not one case has been reported as having received a fair trial.’Iraq is ready to do the same when we are gone. Do you realize that there are 200,000 Kurdish Jews that live in Israel. Jews and Christians are a protected class in Kurdistan.
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