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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.

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