刚复习了一下以色列前总长前总理Ehud Barak的回忆录,他曾经当面怼过小布什,但对Bob Gates和Leon Panetta印象颇佳。也难怪,后两者都干过CIA大头目,而且也都长得像人畜无害的老太太。Barak在我看来也算是面善手黑。
Bibi内塔尼亚胡曾是Barak手下的军官,他俩一起参加了某次反劫机行动。经过一番周折,军人把自己装扮成机械师,他们还召集了几名从其他航班上刚下来的便衣安全员air marshal。行动马上就要开始:
and the attack would begin. Yet just as I was raising my fingers to my mouth, I saw Bibi coming toward me from under the fuselage. He motioned to me to wait. Zur, the last of our air marshals, had a problem. Having spent ten hours in the air on the way back to Israel before being immediately plugged into an assault team, he had something to attend to. “He has to take a shit,” Bibi said. Can’t it wait? I asked. No, was the answer. So I said OK, leading to the most surreal “operational” moment I would witness during all my years in the military.