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2010-12-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli Anti-Missile System To Protect Military, Not Civilian Targets

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-15 03:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Nothing that the US-NATO + USSR-WARPAC didn't employ during the Cold War, i.e. that the most effective way of protecting civilians is to protect the nation's ability to mil counterrespond wid a high prob of success.

aka DETERRENCE.

However, as Iranian + Syrian LRBMS + other MilSys improve over time, IMO TERRSTRIKES INSIDE ISRAEL WILL EVOL FROM ATTACKING CIVILIAN TARGETS TO ATTACKING MILITARY ONES, ESPEC BMD AS PART OF A UNILATERAL OR PREEMPTIVE "FIRST-STRIKE" BY SYRIA + IRAN, ETC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-15 22:39|| NA 2010-12-15 22:39|| Front Page Top

#2 NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED...

* WAFF > THE CHANGE IN EAST ASIA, as ilustr
by CHANGES IN THE DYNAMIC AS PER NORTH-KOREA-VS-SOUTH KOREA.

* SAME > THE MISSLE CRISIS. US-vs-Iran [+ Hugo = Iran LRBMS in Venezuela].

ARTIC > AUTHOR = Iran's Ahmadinejad feels he can safely put Missles in Venezuela because he perceives POTUS Bammer as WEAK. MOUD BELIEVES OBAMA IS NO JFK, i.e. WILL NOT STAND WHERE IT MATTERS IN A CRISIS DESPITE EXTANT MISTAKES IN HANDLING; + THAT THE RADICAL, WINNER-TAKES-IT-ALL MOUD IS NOT THE BLUSTERY, BUT CAUTIOUS, NIKITA KRUSCHEV THAT JFK FACED IN CUBA.

IOW, MOUD = thinks POTUS BAMMER WILL QUICKLY OR ULTIMATELY SURRENDER = "BLINK FIRST". Unlike the aftermath of the Cuban Missle Crisis, there may not be a post-MIKITA LEONID BREZHNEV TO BEGIN THE GREATEST SOVIET AMERIKAN MIL + NUCLEAR BUILDUP IN OWG USSA = OWG USRoA HISTORY???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-15 22:57|| 2010-12-15 22:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Tact doesn't fly far with the Israelis. They are more able to understand and accept this necessity than the average American. I wish our government was as forthcoming.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-15 23:04|| 2010-12-15 23:04|| Front Page Top

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