Look For The Draft In The Future...
One headline from Aljazeera reads what many of us had feared...Ephraim Halevy, the former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service and the current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, says plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East lasting decades.
The June 11 article goes on to quote his statements in an Israeli publication...
"The U.S. campaign in Iraq was perceived [in the Middle East and Washington] as a signal of long-term American commitment to do whatever is required and to 'stay in the neighbourhood' for as long as needed," Halevy stated in a lengthy op-ed column in the April 24 issue of Ha'aretz.
High-ranking U.S. policymakers have "raised the idea of establishing an American trusteeship regime in the areas of the Palestinian Authority, if it should turn out that the Palestinians are not ripe for self-rule. That arrangement would require an American operational military presence along Israel's border with the Palestinian territories."
Looks like the Bush supporters who thought this situation would be temporary are in for their own shock and awe.
We have also been told time and again by the Bush administration that there will be no draft...
No draft? Guess again...
According to Mr Halevy there is a real possibility of a draft...and you really would be foolish not to expect it given the Bush administrations propensity for causing chaos.
"In [an early April '05] visit to the United States," comments Halevy, "I was told by several well-informed observers that should one of the more severe scenarios come to pass, the United States will have no choice but to deepen its presence in the Middle East. To that end, it will have to renew the draft, to ensure that there are enough forces to deal with developing situations in countries like Saudi Arabia."
I took a look at this Isreali publication, just to see what sort of news they had on their site. Within a few seconds I found an article that verified a previous Aljazeera article (posted) about Israel selling US weapon technology to China and that the Israeli goverment figured it would just blow over like just about everything else they have done to us.
The controversy erupted over a deal Israel made to sell its Harpy Killer UAVs to China. The U.S. claims that the deal was made behind its back and against its express wishes.
This is contrary to the Israeli assumption that the crisis would blow over with the departure of the officials with whom the argument had erupted. These include Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who already left for the World Bank, Feith and Undersecretary of Defense for Technology, Security Policy and Counterproliferation Lisa Bronson. Feith and Bronson are soon to end their tenures in the defense department.
Think I'll read it more often...news that our government gives them but will not give us...
posted by Myst @ 9:36 AM
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