They’re the best friends we have there, sure, but why are WE building this....?
It’s ridiculous and maybe historically unprecedented for a BANKRUPT country to be looking after the security needs of another country more than it’s own.
It’s silly —we are enforcing foreign borders, while throwing openour own.
Imagine Israeli troops patrolling the border next to Tijuana —ridiculous.
And why does that make a person, “anti-Israel”...?
Izzies draw within a micrometer of ending the whole problem, and we reign them in. These has happened several different times.
Then we turn around and do stuff like THIS —it’s like we’re deliberately engineering an expensive, dramatic crisis which NEVER ends.
We are flying off of a financial cliff, and this SAME problem dominating the news since I was a very young boy is STILL smack dab where it always was.
Why is this STILL in our threadbare, tattered laps?
“They’re the best friends we have there, sure, but why are WE building this....?”
Perhaps because it’s an American forward base to replace the ones soon to be lost to Islamists in relatively close countries and to provide command and control for forward American operations while surrounded by arguably the best (per capita) friendly airforce in the world and a very good and friendly military force?
Watch out Pardner! A man starts askin’ too many questions ‘round these parts, purty soon he’s supportin’ Constitutionalists ‘n gittin’ hisself banned by the mods.
There’s a catch to US aid for Israel. Besides only being necessary because the US arms its Muslim neighbors to the teeth, most of the money must be spent to benefit US businesses.
Yep, this rather mundane facility is actually a kind of subsidy for US corporations. The story actually says it’s part of a U.S. Foreign Military Sales program as part of the ‘98 Wye agreement.