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2011-08-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Preparing for the next war: IDF looks to buy used US equipment

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The cost of shipping the weapons and ammo and vehicle units back to the US is a matter of weight in transit apparently.

So say the cost is X by weight and Israel, a good customer with ready cash is willing to buy all that used stuff, for X give or take a few bucks. A big stack of thousands of perfectly good Have at Thee, hardly used and all the parts interchangeable...sold by the pound. The US gets the cash and saves the same amount by not shipping it all anywhere. The Israelis load it up and take it back and wash it and paint it and repair it with parts from other parts. New equipment plus the warehouse of spares and parts. A very nice done deal.

What was wrong with Operation Cast Lead was that they didnt finish the JOB and Hamas is so nyah nyah cocky stupid they think there will never be a "next time" and there always is. Israel is too soft and gentle and forgiving and always seems to think that the world will love or likee them ( when it never will ) if they temporise and hesitate about collecting every Hamas they find and forgetting about taking prisoners. Just keep the Press out, do the killing thoroughly, play Duello and get the JOB done.

The reason war works is that there are no more of your enemies if you do the job right. Tarawa was a success for only one reason. When it was over there were NO more Japanese on the island except as oily smoke.
This isnt a philosophical theory, its good business. A JOB done right. DO the job.

Posted by de Medici 2011-08-20 08:49|| 2011-08-20 08:49|| Front Page Top

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