Appeasement Arrives: Joint US-Israel Exercise Postponed For “Budget Reasons”, US Will Not Enforce No Fly Zone Over Syria
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/15/2012
First we had news that out of the blue, the Western embargo against Iranian oil exports would be delayed by 6 months, and now, in the aftermath of last night’s developments out of Iran which blamed the CIA for the murder of its nuclear scientist we get this (from Bloomberg):
ISRAEL, U.S. POSTPONE MILITARY EXERCISE, ISRAEL RADIO SAYS
JOINT EXERCISE POSTPONED FOR BUDGET REASONS, RADIO SAYS
U.S.-ISRAELI EXERCISE PLANNED TO BE BIGGEST EVER, RADIO SAYS
EXERCISE WAS TO TAKE PLACE IN NEXT FEW MONTHS, RADIO SAYS
And just so it doesn’t look like a total cave in:
ISRAEL SAYS JOINT U.S. MILITARY EXERCISE STILL UNDER DISCUSSION
As a reminder Iran made it very clear an escalation in joint US-Israel war game cooperation would be met with yet another miliary exercise out of Iran.
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