re: Trump names Huckabee Israeli Ambassador - Moves Embassy to Jeresulem

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I agree 100% on the staging thing. It would be one of the worst places on Earth to stage a military operation from. It would be like setting up a fire response control center in the living room of a burning house.

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Or putting the Crisis response headquarters in the building across the street from the world trade center.

The US can use anyone's territory for a staging area, with or without their consent. In the case of Israel, there are no dedicated US military bases or airfields being used to conduct operations in the theater. Those ALL belong to Arab and Turkish states, who have been surprisingly generous ($$$$$ talks) with allowing US operations in the region. The Israelis have accepted BIllions of dollars in airfield and base construction, justified undoubtedly with the reasoning that if we need to, the US can use them. all of those bases are occupied by Israeli forces, and the US does not use them to conduct operations.

So like I said, we have no theater operations staging capability there, and like you said, it would be RETARDED to do so anyway.