The GOP candidates got into a ‘who’s the greater defender of Israel’ contest at the recent debate. Ron Paul said that he was for cutting off aid to Israel – and everyone else. It got pretty testy. Paul tried in vain to get someone to listen to his simple logic: cutting off foreign aid to everyone would mean that Israel’s enemies wouldn’t be the beneficiaries of even greater U. S. arms aid.
“If you care about Israel,” he asked, “why would you give their enemies all of those weapons?”
Of course, that really was way too much foreign policy information for the good people of South Carolina to follow. Or the Fox News panel for that matter.
The Associated Press broke this story two hours ago:
AP - The Bush administration announced its intention on Monday to sell $123 million worth of sophisticated, precision-guided bomb technology to Saudi Arabia as part of a larger arms package to the country and its Gulf neighbors, estimated to total $20 billion.
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