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Meh. A few clicks, and you can read the author's previous JPost editorials on the topic. Briefly put, he knows how to tell JPost's audience what they want to hear. Which starts with "Fixing this hellish quagmire that we (Israel) are in is America's problem, not ours". Then he plays extremely fast and loose with the history of the US and US Army, and generally daydreams all his problems away.

I'd file this one under Cargo-Cult Fantasies.

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America has a worse problem with it than Israel does, it sort of is America's problem. It's not the Israeli army taking lead or Israel's diplomacy taking a hit.

America has a worse problem only in that America is still (Lord knows how) viewed as the default global superpower - so things going wrong in far-away places are somehow our problem.

So America can walk away from this. Vs. Israel can't.

Worse - if Israel's popularity with American voters continues to fall, America could place its support for Israel on the bargaining table with Iran. Think about just how much Tehran might give up, to end that support. And about just how poor Israel's situation might soon become without it.

If Israel still has any competent leaders, they should be terrified by the possibility.

Israel's diplomacy has taken a huge hit. They have all time low approval/support from the majority of the world, including America

Except for the problems caused by attacking Iran earlier this year, the US does not have a problem with Iran so big it warrants trying to recruit one million soldiers and deploy them to Iran to subjugate the nation. And even the current problems aren't big enough to warrant that effort (yet, at least).

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