Posted on 08/20/2016 2:33:10 PM PDT by Tours
[[Note that he is substantially increasing the money...]]
It ties congress hands to help them for the next 10 years.
What Congress does, they can always undo.
I doubt Obama is stressing anything. More than likely lobbyists have found a sympathetic ear.
[[What Congress does, they can always undo.]]
Well right now Congress has a stinking bad track record undoing or stopping anything .
I’m just happy to learn were not as bankrupt as the negative Nellie’s say we are. Spend, spend, spend!
Nope. Our tax dollars go to Iran.
Tours is just chumming the water.
Real info:
- 100% of the money will be spent in the U.S., while Israel is presently able to spend 25% in Israel. This is a subsidy for U.S. defense industries and constrains Israel's defense choices by forcing the IDF to exclude weapons from Europe and elsewhere.
- Without the ability to spend some money in Israel, it will be harder for smaller defense and high-tech industries to keep up.
- Israel will be prohibited from asking Congress for additional funds for ten years, effectively removing a bipartisan center of support for Israel's security from the equation and reducing Israel's flexibility in addressing rapidly emerging threats.
- This could be particularly problematic: an administration that opposes missile defense in principle -- as does the Obama administration -- could effectively stifle Israel, which protects its people with a layered missile defense system.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8667/israe-mou-aid
Also, Glick:
http://carolineglick.com/time-to-walk-away-from-us-aid/
And she is right too
http://carolineglick.com/time-to-walk-away-from-us-aid/
If Israel walks away from the current military assistance package under discussion, it will be in a position to sign joint development deals with the US and other governments on a project by project basis and so ensure that we develop the weapons systems we need, not the ones the US thinks we should have, as we need them. Just as India is investing billions of dollars in joint projects with Israel, so will the US in the future.
Interesting how 0bama doesn’t fret about our tax dollars going to Iran or Hezbollah (via Iran) or Hamas.
Just Israel.
“This is a subsidy for U.S. defense industries.....”
Versus a subsidy for the Israeli defense industry?
Okay, got it!
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