Lyle wrote in message . ..
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:54:10 +0200, wrote:

On 1 Jul 2003 15:34:02 -0700, (Kevin Brooks)
wrote:

wrote in message . ..
On 30 Jun 2003 18:31:07 -0700, (Kevin Brooks)
wrote:

(Quant) wrote in message . com...

American defense contractors would not be too happy if that were to
happen.

why would they be upset, we just got done with a war, and we would use
the money and that we would give them for their military to rearm
ours.

They would be upset not only because they would be denied the
GUARANTEED
$2 billion they get from the US treasury annually to build planes for
Israel, but also the loss of an additional $5 billion in profitable
arms sales annually to the Middle East ARab states in general, because
without arms sales to Israel, AIPAC and other pro-Israel lobbies would
cause a reimposition of
the ENTIRE embargo on arms sales to the region that was the law before
1961. But in addition, they would lose access to a few thousand good
Israeli
engineers that have helped upgrade US military technologies. The F-15I
was specified by the Israeli military. The Israeli designed Arrow II
theater
ABM system was designed in Israel, albeit 2/rds financed by the US. It
helped
the US circumvent the US-Soviet ABM treaty in its development, and its
technology and design also belongs to the US partner which can limit
its
sales by Israel to third parties. INdeed, Boeing will now be
manufacturing
Arrow IIs in the US. Indeed, the US and Israeli defense industries
have become
so intertwined at the design level that it is increasingly difficult
to know
where one begins and the other lets off.