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To: Ilaine who wrote (26447)	4/22/2002 2:12:23 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

CB, This has nothing to do with "short-term".. It's was a long-standing policy of the Jordanians that anyone caught selling land to a Jew was to be executed... head chopped off.. drawn and quartered.. that kind of stuff.. Thus, it will require substantial and forceful policy changes to alter that well-entrenched mindset. And there is SUBSTANTIAL strategic value.. Nothing like possessing the high ground and being able to call in air strikes and artillery on advancing armored columns.. Tie up the roads with wreckage and you can destroy an entire unit with relatively few men exposed.. Every defensive position is layered so that as the enemy expends resources penetrating the 1st layer, they suffer casualties and confusion before hitting the 2nd and 3rd layers. Research a WWII battle called Kursk, and how the layered defense exhausted the powerful German armored forces by making them deal with anti-tank gun, mines, and tank traps, thus setting the stage for a even more powerful counter-attack by the Russians... And the Russians won that battle decisively. This is the same strategy.. make the Jordans (or Iraqis) waste the efforts taking the hills and setting them up for a vicious counterattack. But without those defensive outposts, there would be very little, except airpower, to prevent a major thrust into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, thus splitting the county in two parts. Hawk