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| 2012-01-15 |
| Possibly correct with the story, but wrong with the conclusions The White House (has) called off Austere Challenge 12, the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have every staged, ready to go in spring. The exercise was officially postponed from spring 2012 to the last quarter of the year over "budgetary constraints" -- an obvous diplomatic locution for cancellation. Nothing was said about the 9,000 US troops who landed in Israeli earlier this month for a lengthy stay. Neither was the forthcoming visit by Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, Thursday mentioned. Friday, Jan. 13, the Pentagon announced the substantial buildup of combat power around Iran, stationing nearly 15,000 troops in Kuwait - two Army infantry brigades and a helicopter unit -- and keeping two aircraft carriers the region: The USS Carl Vinson, the USS John Stennis and their strike groups. [Reports are] that a third aircraft carrier and strike group, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is also on its way to the Persian Gulf. This massive military buildup indicates that either President Obama rates the odds of an Israel attack as high and is bolstering the defenses of US military assets against Iranian reprisals - or, alternatively, that the United States intends to beat Israel to the draw and attack Iran itself. Actually, this last bit is likely, because Israel can be pretty quick on the trigger with nuclear weapons if attacked, and they are not going to agree to any p.c. ROE with the US, which Obama would demand. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 Borgboy, confirmations from personal sources is always good. Besides, I had no idea, so that,s one person you've informed. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-15 13:31 |
| #2 I have a friend on the "Lincoln" and it recently arrived at Dubai. If this is common knowledge I apologize for bandwidth usage. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2012-01-15 13:08 |
| #1 "Budgetary constraints" my foot...... I kind of agree with anonymoose because if we go it alone and the russians , Syrians, Egiptians, Hamas, Hizbolla et al. come to the conclusion that Obama will sit back and eat popcorn, they will all attack us, in which case I think we will have to use Nukes because we will not be able to successfully cope with five or six active fronts simultaneously using conventional means. Bambi's hesitation and lame diplomacy will eventually result in a nuclear war in the ME. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2012-01-15 12:48 |