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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (158030)	2/13/2005 11:33:43 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Lol! I don't think much of you either, Nadine.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (158030)	2/15/2005 1:10:39 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine; Re: "But to assert that Israel is a bad ally ..." I'm not saying that Israel is a "bad" ally. I'm saying that they're a "useless" ally. (More exactly, I said that having Israel as an ally was no "practical use".) Re: "... it would have broken apart Bush 41's coalition ..." This is one of several reasons that Israel is useless as an ally. The others are that they don't have a big army, and the army they have is already busy. Israel, as an ally, matches the old South Africa as far as uselessness goes. Re: "... when in fact it's the only regional ally that the US can count on ..." You've already admitted that the US didn't ask Israel for any help in the two recent times our soldiers have been involved in the Middle East. And remember how, under Reagan, that excellent Israeli intelligence saved our soldiers lives in Lebanon? Oh, and then there's the Liberty incident. -- Carl