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Senate GOP divided over Speaker Johnson’s Israel gambit
(thehill.com)
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Why does Israel need military aid? They are by far the superior force. Their response to it is worse than the US response to the 2001 attacks.
I'm not against parking a carrier group off the coast to prevent some other country from taking advantage of the situation, but I don't see why Israel needs US help.
I don’t know why we can’t just send the typical GOP care package of “thoughts and prayers.”
We've been piping them 5% of the DOD budget for like 40 years, gave them iron domes, rifles, aircraft, and tracks and wheels, with ammunition for the lot. I think we've done our share as an Ally, and Israel's actions can only reflect poorly on us when they use our tools to excercize manifest destiny.
You mean genocide when you say manifest destiny?
That's what manifest destiny always means.
In an American context, yes. I was just pointing it out for those not familiar with the white supremacy belief that pervades American history.
They don't. But Mike believes Israel is Yahweh's special little guy, because it says so in his anthology (which is totally true, because it says so in the anthology).
Because American Christians need the Jewish people to be in the right geographic location for Judgement day.
Unfortunately, the our normally sociopathic oligarch class is still littered with people that sometimes make emotional decisions exclusively for their irrational superstitions that have no place in modern governments but still do because the ones with the gold make the rules.
So when they aren't starving/poisoning/exploiting you and your children for private profit, they're killing foreign children in the name of supply side jeebus.
I don't care who anyone worships, I have great disdain, however, for the legions of people eager to make their worship other people's problem.
That's what I'm asking. What do they actually need the money for??
Genocide