----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 3:49 PM Subject: RE: Is War Coming?
> > At 09:29 AM 4/13/02 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote: > > >The minute Secretary of State Colin Powell departs the region > empty-handed, > > >Washington's Middle East foes - Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah and the > > >Palestinians - are set to initiate a coordinated military action with a > view > > >to reducing the United States to a powerless spectator > > > > Well, don't they feel silly now! > > > Why? > > xponent > rob > > Well they should feel silly because it was a ludicrous scenario - very odd > for Debka, which generally has an excellent record. But actually engaging > Israeli forces on the battlefield - instead of trying to murder women and > children - means certain defeat for the Arab countries. The Israelis > crushed them at least three times since Independence, and all of the factors > that made the Israeli military so superior to its Arab counterparts operate > _more_ strongly now than they did a generation ago. And the scenario Debka > was talking about would, even more amazingly, involve an open challenge to > the power of the United States using conventional means. Ones that our > military has been specifically designed to defeat. We fought a small war in > the 1980s to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Closing it would immediately > drive all of the (currently ambivalent) Gulf Powers into our camp. Within a > few months the virtually inevitable result would have been the destruction > of the Iranian, Iraqi, and Syrian militaries at minimal cost to the United > States and moderate cost to Israel, almost certainly followed by a > realignment of Middle Eastern nations that would have been entirely > favorable to the US and Israel. When I read it, my first thought was that > not even those countries could possibly be stupid enough to what was being > described. > > Gautam Hmmmmm....but is any of it true? Is this operation "Unity" a real thing? It seems bizarre that Iran and Iraq would work together closely. xponent Odd Stuff Maru rob
