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The preposterous case against the new defense bill
['Rich Lowry']
Herald-Standard
The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act, a sprawling $1.15 trillion bill that supposedly includes a provision buried in it “merging” the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has said anyone who voted for the bill “sold out the American people to a foreign country.”
Legislation often has obfuscatory titles, but this provision is deemed, with admirable clarity, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.
It calls for the secretary of defense to designate “an executive agent” to coordinate between the U.S. and Israel on “bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration and industrial cooperation.”
That the United States would want a close working relationship with Israel on military technology is hardly surprising.