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Wednesday, December 11, 2002

# Posted 7:02 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

PISSING OFF BRUSSELS: "A NATO rapid reaction force? Oh, please. A NATO expanded to 26 countries is not going to be reacting rapidly anywhere. NATO already has a rapid reaction force, the only one it needs. It's called the U.S. Army Special Forces." Ah, Tom Friedman. Always making new friends. His pot shot at NATO is just the warm up for the real subject of his column: the idea that both Israelis and Palestinians are warming to the idea of having Western peacekeeping force in the West Bank and Gaza. While I'm sure Friedman's sources said what he said they said (got that?), I still find if hard to believe NATO would ever risk its credibility on a no-win situation like the one in the occupied territories.
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