Letters to the Editor
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Nope, you're wrong Mr. Rosenberg
In the words of Arlo Guthrie, "...when we got to the police officer's station, there was a third possibility..."
After the fall of the government the CIA imposed on Iran in the 1953 coup, the US sought another US surrogate government in the Middle East to do our bidding. We lighted on Iraq which, under Saddam Hussein, seemed to fit the bill. Iraq eventually contravenied American policy by attacking Q8 (attacking Iran in the '80s was OK, we provided Iraq arms to help them support our policy). So we needed another surrogate. Shrub & Co seem to think that Israel will fit the bill (note the earlier suggestion that Israel could violate the airspace of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq to launch an attack on Iran's nuclear program). Since we have largely made our Middle Eastern policy congruent with Israel's, it seems a perfect fit.
Thus we see the US rearming Israel so they can continue the attack on Lebanon rather than seeing them run out of ammo and become vulnerable to an attack by another Middle Eastern power.