They've blown up US ships and committed major espionage in the US without that relationship being destroyed.
Christopher E. Doss Moscow, Russian Federation
--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Stratfor on Obama, Yahoo and Natural Growth
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 12:56 PM
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> >> 1. Israel would have to send bombers across Iraqi
> airspace, which is controlled by the US.
> >>
> > With respect to 1, there is no way the US is going to
> shoot down Israeli planes (and I don't think the Iraqis have
> the capacity to do so). That's not participation; that's
> your bluff being called.
>
> They wouldn't be afraid of getting shot down in that
> scenario. They would be afraid of completely
> destroying their special relationship with the US. It's
> almost impossible to imagine. But doing that, against
> our express orders, might just turn the trick. It's a
> small but real possibility of an outcome which should be too
> terrible for them to imagine.
>
> Michael
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