I wouldn’t be mentoring anything Arab or Muslim in any way shape or form.
Mentoring people we may have to fight later on ios a bit stupid IMO.
How many of these people can be trusted? Muslim? Arab? I wouldn’t turn my back on any of them.
In this day and age, you never know, but I would support low level training. I would not support sophisticated training. Of course we’re not going to change any minds, but it does help validate any future U. S. actions, if the U. S. can get gulf nations to admit they have a grave fear of Iran getting operational nukes.
These training exercises are a good way for the U. S. to maintain some level of contact with governments in the region. My take is that for all their bluster, these nations would be thrilled to see the U. S. neuter Iran’s nuke program.
That’s not all that bad actually. It minimizes the charge that the U. S. would be acting unilaterally to take Iran’s nuke program on. It means that the U. N. could go ahead and flap it’s gums, but most nations would realize the U. S. was doing something that had to be done.
Russian and China will never pull their head out of their posteriors, but other nations particularly in the region will know what’s up. Just about every Islamic nation will heave a sigh of relief, once Iran’s nuclear program is destroyed.
Those governments don’t want radicals in their nations obtaining nukes too. I would submit that ten minutes after Iran has developed nukes, they’ll be for sale on the black market.
I can think of some folks in the U. S. that would probably consider donating funds for the purchase of these weapons too. I sure wouldn’t put it past them.
Venturer,
I was in the U.S. Army during late Viet Nam.
Went to Fort Gordon for communications.
At that time there were a couple thousand troops from the mid east going to the same schools. I looked in to it at the time and found out there are literally tens of thousands of foreign troops here ALL the time learning how to better fight using our tactics, equipment and structures.
Hell, just yesterday I was at the Saint Lucie County airport with my wife having breakfast at the Tiki and there were two mid east guys there going to pilot schooling there.\
Happens all the time still.