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Originally posted by maximusveritas
Even if you concede that we would have gotten involved in the first Gulf War without our ties to Israel, I think you are off in thinking that Israel didn't retaliate just because of its friendship with the United States. Say we weren't friends with Israel at the time, you are saying they would have retaliated. This would have probably led to another Arab-Israeli War, which would have ended in Israel using WMD. According to quite a few people on this board, this would have been a desirable endpoint. So really, that's quite a weak reason to be spending all this money.
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That was probably the only thing that kept Israel from retaliating.