jim:
This might interest you. I had read the following Moshe Dyan quotes about the tractor provocation before somewhere but this is the only reference I can find through google.
<<"First, Israel did not respond, it practically attacked Egypt and Syria through provocation. About Golan, for example, Moshe Dyan wrote, “We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn’t possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn’t shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force…">>
pmwatch.org
Re: "Oh, and a footnote of my own, it is in part about oil and guess what? We need it. Saudi Arabia has a lot more than the camel boy."
We all need it and if it wasn't for the sanctions Iraq would have been exporting much more than it is allowed to and the price would be less than $20. The winners in this game have been and continue to be the people who put President Bush in power IMHO.
The present situation seems to me to possibly be a game of brinkmanship which is being overplayed.
stockman_scotts reference dawn.com doesn't only speak for Moslems who see a betrayal of what were thought to be American values it also speaks for many in Europe, Canada and elsewhere. In Britain, with 1.5 million Moslems, if there is a war there will be widespread support for the troops but not the war and at a possible cost in the future which might make the IRA attacks in the past seem like child's play.
T.
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