RE: should america support Israel?
July 5, 2014 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2014 at 11:04 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 5, 2014 at 9:18 am)Cato Wrote:(July 5, 2014 at 4:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Some days (and there aren't many), I kinda sorta wish the US would let Egypt destroy Tel Aviv a little. Not too much, just enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a diving bell or a divining rod.
Boru
The Egyptians don't have a good track record when it comes to fucking with Israel.
The Egyptian army clearly out-planned, out-maneuvered, and out-fought the Israeli army in 1973. They were only defeated when political leadership under Sadat compelled them, after attaining all their planned objectives, to keep going and to greatly exceed their plans in a futile effort to relieve the Syrians.
Had they stuck to their plan and focused on holding the ground they've taken, it would have been extremely difficult for the Israeli army to dislodge them even if the Israelis could turn their entire army to face the Egyptians after defeating Syria, and in all probability the war would have ended in a military stalemate with Egyptians having the great moral advantage of still being in control of initial fields of battle of the war as well as at least some of the territorial gains made in the war.
Once the war drags on internation opinion would turn against Israel because such territorial gains Egyptians held, and Israel is attatempting to retake, were universally acknowledged to be Egyptian territory in the first place.
1973 showed Arab armies, under prevailing military realities and when trained by the soviets and have their acts together, can match and surpass Israeli army in high level military planning and leadership. The Egyptians at least also gave Israeli army a run for its money in middle level leadership.
