Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in Israel and via FP's Situation Report refers to the NYT article, his own words:Then others said, with my emphasis:an outreach to other partners who may not have been willing to be partners in the past..What I mean is the Gulf states in particular, who heretofore may not have been as open-minded to the potential for cooperation with Israel, in any way.Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/wo...01%202014&_r=0While General Dempsey did not go into specifics, other American military officials said that possibilities include intelligence-sharing, joint counterterrorism exercises and perhaps looking for how Israeli and Saudi troops could jointly work on the training of Syrian opposition fighters
Clearly someone has not thought this idea through, particularly how our shared enemies would respond. Let alone IMHO the reaction within both countries.
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