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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (6624)	4/1/2004 11:04:42 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 15987

Israel cannot simply re-enact its 1981 raid upon Iraq's Osirak reactor. Iran’s nuclear fuel processing facilities are harder to get at, perhaps beyond the capacity of non-nuclear weapons. Why do you think the Israelis purchased those 3 German subs, with missile launch capability? Sure they are a strategic leg of a retaliatory "triad", but they also provide the ability to launch conventional guided munitions as effectively as their actual strike at Iraq's Osirak facility. Personally, I'm beginning to think that Friedman and Stephen Cohen are on the right track as to what the US needs to do next... And that would be to initiate a NATO led force to replace the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza and prepare that terroritory for some form of statehood. I wouldn't be happy about taking on such a responsibility, but would certainly go far towards diffusing the prevalent belief that the US is anti-muslim. And it might just be the strategy that would initiate a rethinking of US policy objectives in the region. Hawk