If the United States sold planes to Israel that then were used to attack Iran, the Iranians would probably Newport Cigarettes Shop still see the U.S. as culpable in the attack and respond.
In April 2014, retired Air Force lieutenant general David Deptula and Michael Makovsky of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal arguing that the United States should turn over a dozen surplus B-52 heavy bombers to Israel.
Deptula and Makovsky said that the eight-engine B-52s should come with a consignment of America’s special Newport 100s Box Massive Ordnance Penetrators—gigantic bombs tailored for smashing buried facilities. Specifically, nuclear facilities.
“B-52s for Israel,” as we’ve dubbed it, is a silly little proposal with approximately zero chance of actually being implemented. And it’s possible Deptula and Makovsky don’t even mean for anyone to take its details seriously.
Their bomber idea could be part of a media game of sorts, one that certain political constituencies are playing Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes in order to broadly influencepolicy, rather than comprise policy.
But just for fun, let’s consider “B-52s for Israel” as a sober proposal.