Well, that's clearly part of the deal. But other than strategic stuff (bases, listening posts, etc) it seems to me of fairly limited value. I'd think the Saudi association is generally more useful, and at least in theory the new Iraq locale sorts a lot of strategic goals (assuming they can hang on to it, which may not be a safe assumption). Given the antagonism Israel causes to the area, if it were me I'd want to limit my association with 'em.
There's pretty clearly an awful lot of backroom politics going on no matter how you slice it though.
(oh, and then there's the assertions that the Mossad were aware of the 9-11 attacks, and even had agents on the ground to observe, but didn't warn the US, which I recall as being credible if unsubstantiated the last time I looked into them (which would be 5 or more years ago so may be wildly out of date now). Admittedly, their excessive UNSec violations and the Liberty incident have negatively impacted my opinions)
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Date: 2008-12-29 02:55 am (UTC)There's pretty clearly an awful lot of backroom politics going on no matter how you slice it though.
(oh, and then there's the assertions that the Mossad were aware of the 9-11 attacks, and even had agents on the ground to observe, but didn't warn the US, which I recall as being credible if unsubstantiated the last time I looked into them (which would be 5 or more years ago so may be wildly out of date now). Admittedly, their excessive UNSec violations and the Liberty incident have negatively impacted my opinions)