https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no1/html_files/arab_israeli_war_1.html

CIA Analysis of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

Getting It Right

David S. Robarge

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On the morning of 23 May—the day after Egypt closed the Gulf of Aqaba, Israel's only access to the Red Sea—President Johnson summoned Helms from a congressional briefing and tasked him with providing an assessment of the increasingly volatile Middle East situation. Here was a chance for the CIA to seize the day analytically. Only four hours later—just in time for one of LBJ's “Tuesday lunches”— Helms had in hand two papers: “US Knowledge of Egyptian Alert” and “Overall Arab and Israeli Military Capabilities.” Those memoranda, plus a Situation Report (SITREP), were delivered to him in the ground floor lobby outside the White House office of presidential adviser Walt Rostow. The remarkably rapid turnaround was possible because the Directorate of Intelligence's (DI) Arab-Israeli task force, in existence since early in the year, already was producing two SITREPs a day, and the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI) had for months been keeping a running log of the two sides' relative strengths and states of readiness. The second paper Helms had brought—the “who will win” memo—was the crucial one. It stated that Israel could “defend successfully against simultaneous Arab attacks on all fronts . . . or hold on any three fronts while mounting successfully a major offensive on the fourth.”[5]

He misinterprets what I said about the desirability of Iran getting nukes to spring from a desire on my part to see lots of people killed. That may be how he thinks, but it isn't how I think.

I thought I expressed myself clearly enough, but let me say it again. I want Mutual Assured Destruction to govern the Middle East precisely because I do not want lots of people killed.

Not that I expect someone who indulges Nazi-like fantasies of racial purity to understand such humane thinking.

Or Calamine. "Extermination by Irish Admixture". As an Irish-American, I find that expression so reminiscent of Nazi thought most interesting.

Compared to the thought of people with that kind of mentality having 200 nukes, I find the thought of Iran also having a few nukes far from scary, positively refreshing. The Mutual Assured Destruction might be the only thing that stops Israel from misusing its nukes.

Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Personnel and point man on LGBT issues for the Army. http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Fh7rVoIEoIkJ:www.debunk911myths.org/topics/Casualties+%22lieutenant+general+timothy+maude%22&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I am posting that information here because the anthrax thread, where the matter was discussed, is now closed.

Hitler or Stalin or Mao.

I'm just now listening to CD's of cabaret performers from Weimar Berlin. Maybe we're no longer just at the Weimar stage, or even just at the stage of Nazism's peaceful early years of rule.

If we still had the USSR to compete with, we would not have engaged in all our hubristic wars and what not for the past 20 years. And capitalism, with the competitor of Communism still alive, would have continued to be on its best behavior, instead of going wild and revealing its true nature.

Ann Friedman, Friedman's wife, used to have a major share in family trusts worth $3.6 billion, via ownership of shopping-mall developer General Growth Properties. By late last year, that $3.6 billion had already shrunk to less than $25 million. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/11/thomas-friedmans-world-is-flat-broke.html

Since then, GGP filed for bankruptcy. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/general-growth-properties-files-for-bankruptcy/?ref=global-home

The Friedmans may no longer be billionaires, but, once you've been one, no doubt it takes a long time to drop the habits of thought that billionaires have.

for the Indian Prime Minister last week. The Washington Post ran a list of the guests the day after the dinner, and Mr. and Mrs. Friedman were on it.

I regret to say that Tom Friedman was a Marshall Scholar, like myself, as a young man. I occasionally attend Marshall Scholars events in D.C., as it helps to assure the British government that it's a good idea to continue the program. Peter Orszag regularly attends, and has been a featured speaker. I've never seen Friedman at one of those events (even though I've seen him walking on the street in Bethesda).

Bush was inaugurated. The break-in into the Niger embassy that yielded the letterhead was in early Jan. 2001.

And now we learn that Condi Rice was telling the Brits, again before the inauguration, that Saddam Hussein would have to go.

Speaking of timing, didn't White House people take Cipro immediately after 9/11, before the anthrax attacks started?

when we changed the rule to the right side just out of general anti-British perversity.

Like with the switch from tea to coffee.

He did, however, take the following constitutionally mandated oath:

I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

(At least, those are the words he swore the second time, after having gotten them a bit wrong on Inauguration Day at the misprompting of Chief Justice Roberts.)

recess the end of last week, and they won't come back until next week. Granted, there was a longer recess during the summer, but couldn't Obama still give Dawn Johnsen a recess apppointment right now?