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Numerous innovations (like the bandage that saved Gabriel Giffords' life), numerous American companies doing R&D in Israel (Intel is fabricating their upcoming
by tkahn6 15y ago
Numerous innovations (like the bandage that saved Gabriel Giffords' life), numerous American companies doing R&D in Israel (Intel is fabricating their upcoming Sandy Bridge line in Israel), and of course, military relations (weapons/defense technology, American weapons caches in Israel, intelligence cooperation, stuxnet).
- tibbon 15y agoSo they have some R&D there. Lots of countries do that, and our relationship with them isn't quite the same. Lots of tech in Ireland for example, but we weren't getting in their mini-religious war quite so much in the 90's and protecting one side like that.
- tkahn6 15y ago> So they have some R&D there. As I outlined above and which you are purposely and blatantly ignoring, our relationship is more than economic. Ireland doesn't face an existential threat from anti-Western regimes, nor does it have the same military relationship that we do with Israel. The situations could not be more different.
- mnemonicsloth 15y agoThe Irish were fighting against one of our closest allies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship