[ninenot]

Oh, yeah--Israel would do something...

And if they got in over their head? Are you prepared to bop over and join the IDF?

Better get some target practice in with a full-auto, Sink.

The REASON we hamstring Israel is to keep OUR troops from having to save their butts, which is a highly likely scenario.

While I respect the IDF (and the Mossad) there's far too many ways for them to get into deeeeeeeeeep water over there, almost all of them calling for US intervention.

That's ANOTHER reason that JPII said what he said (not what you would have us BELIEVE he said, along with the editors of Reuters and The Guardian.)

[Desdemona]

The REASON we hamstring Israel is to keep OUR troops from having to save their butts, which is a highly likely scenario.

...otherwise there wouldn't be anyone left for an Israeli state.