Thursday, July 23, 2009

A Defense Umbrella?



Here's something that I don't understand: The United States currently maintains 4 major proxies in the Middle East. Between Israel, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia we've managed to cover a huge proportion of the region's population, territory, oil reserves, and military capability. In addition to these four major clients, we probably have half a dozen minor clients. The "US client-to-state-ratio" in the Middle East has got to be the highest in the world. Given this, why is it always necessary to further a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/asia/23diplo.html?ref=world"proclaim/a defense "umbrellas"? Don't patrons have clients for a reason? And don't clients have patrons for a reason?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-2385391838318973188?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div

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