Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Reassurance From Your Allies: Not This Time, Israel

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was asked if, should Israel fly attack planes over Iraq (through the no-fly zone) to Iran, we would shoot them down.

He didn't want to go into the hypothetical.

Perhaps a bolder leader and more staunch ally of our ally would have said "We're not in the business of shooting down Israeli jets," but that's not what we have right now.

No comments: