It’s been obvious for nearly a year that the US should be looking for an offramp from any association with this massacre and building the case for getting out of bed with Netanyahu. Instead we’ve hitched ourselves to this madman.
US officials (you’ll never guess who!!!!!!) greenlit Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. If you’re wondering what happened to the “ceasefire talks” www.politico.com/news/2024/09...
The officials urged caution and stressed the need for diplomacy. But the timing was right for such a military shift, they concluded.
I consider the Afghanistan withdrawal to be Biden’s greatest achievement, but if he lets us get drawn into another Middle East war it will all have been for naught
This is so obvious that on several occasions I have heard Biden and thought that he was rhetorically preparing the ground for it. boy was I wrong
Biden was indoctrinated amidst trauma on his first overseas trip as a 20-something senator right after his wife & daughter died in one of Likud's first attempts. Blinken was in from birth as the son of a founding zionist leader & step-son of a Mossad agent. Netanyahu said they'd be "push-overs".
Brett McGurk needs to be exiled from all future administrations. He's a menace.
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It's possible this would have all happened the same regardless, but Biden swapping Jeff Zients in for Ron Klain after the midterms has been so incredibly disastrous in just about every possible way
I like how we’re suddenly pretending that we don’t have a black belt in regime-change-as-foreign-policy when it comes to Israel.
Biden is old and his 50 years in foreign policy are an anchor not a boon.
The hospital decimation, the refugee camp bombing, the journalist assassinations, the dead humanitarian aid workers — take *any excuse* to get off this murder train and tell Americans that while Israel has a right to defend itself (or whatever will please centrists), it's now gone too far.
The US created this mess and the US doesn’t ever admit having been wrong. This is the crucial difference from Ukraine.