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This is the strength of the book. It presents a simple truth which Israel has tried to hide from the rest of the world: that disagreement exists over the war in Lebanon, over the annexation of territory, over the fate of the PLO, and, more basically, over the justification of the existence of a pre-Messianic Jewish state. Oz ruthlessly removes any illusions about Israeli unity...
...didn't they have a tank ditch? Was that a political decision?" Kelley also dismissed a Central Intelligence Agency report that had been sent to him three days before the attack, warning of a possible attempt on the Marines, as one of "those broad, vague, general statements they hide behind...
...Achilles Heel most often cited regarding a land based cruise missile program comes in the verification of numbers deployed; it's impossible. But then either country could have and hide as many as it wished anyway--so the point is moot. While the land based missiles cannot be verified, delivery vehicles in other parts of the triad (planes, subs and ships) can be. Decreasing the risk of war justifies a safe weapon buildup. Harvard Living With Nuclear Weapons authors wrote. "We conclude that the contributions of air launched cruise missiles to deterrence and crisis stability outweigh the potential costs...
...case for the invasion rests increasingly on the assertion that the Cubans had been attempting to transform Grenada into a sort of island fortress. Eyewitness reports from correspondents might have made that claim quickly convincing. Their absence may cause the question to persist: What was the Administration trying to hide...
Nelson said "I don't think the President even had to learn from Thatcher. I think that's always been his inclination-not to let the people know. It gives the impression, accurate or not, that they have something to hide In the end this may be like Watergate...