Tuesday, October 26, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Turkey Co-opts NATO Missile-Defense System to Hurt Israel and Help Iran - 'That Turkey has grown unrelentingly hostile to Israel, and cozy with Iran, is no longer news. But it is news, of the most disturbing kind, that Washington has chosen to actively collaborate in both the hostility and the coziness. Yet that's what emerges from today's Haaretz report on NATO's planned missile-defense system: the U.S., it says, has agreed to Turkey's demand that no information gathered by the system -- whose primary goal is countering threats from Iran -- be shared with Israel...'
