West Asia and a Coming American Independence

When assessing Israel’s recent demand for 40,000 MK-84 and BLU-117 2000 pound of munitions, I misspoke in an interview this week. I left out the 20,000 I-2000 penetrator bombs they also requested, and assumed that Israel couldn’t drop those munitions without even more US taxpayer help.

But the US taxpayer was way ahead of me. We’ve already provided the IDF with the aircraft needed to drop MK-84s, their. . .