All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. But you wouldn't know it if you get your news from Brokaw, Jennings and Rather. Their troops are locked and cocked, and their logistical types have been roving the world with checkbooks at high port, buying bombs and bullets aplenty. But while we're providing that troubled country with theater missile-protection, we've left our soldiers stark naked, unable to stop a single Scud. We're contingency planning for a fight in the Middle East.
Armies are always contingency planning.
The Bush bunch was presented with the problem on Jan. 20. Just the way JFK inherited the Bay of Pigs debacle from Ike, and Clinton had the Somali disaster dumped in his lap by Bush the Elder. The Israeli-Arab fight is no new event. Flip open your Bible and you can brush up on the earlier rounds. Like the shootouts between the Hatfields and McCoys, it won't be going away any time soon.