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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (158064)	2/15/2005 1:59:42 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Carl, the only two countries in the Mideast that can be of any use in a fight are Israel and Turkey." Israel is too busy with their own problems to lend us a hand in anything except, well, defending Israel. This is the way it's been since 1948, and I don't see it changing any time soon. Turkey, on the other hand, is a useful ally, to the extent that we need one. By the way, Turkey is a long established small nation with a population of about 70 million, about 12x that of Israel. Re: "The way to make Israel a more useful ally (and it's plenty useful already), is to remove the Arab excuse-making and intransigence that makes it a pariah, not to dump them in favor of some corrupt Arab regimes ..." I'm not suggesting taking up Arab countries and begin sending them billions and billions of dollars of aid like we've done with Israel. In fact, I'm in favor of ending our aid to Egypt. Even though Egyptian troops did fight alongside ours in the Kuwait adventure, I don't think that the amount of help we got from them was worth the investment. Re: "... that can't fight worth a damn anyway." As Iraq well illustrates, the US can do the fighting pretty much by itself. Where we need assistance is in the "police" work afterwards. And for that the Arab troops are just fine. In fact, that's their primary use at home. -- Carl