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Dump Term 2, Part 2: "A third term would be a big shattering."

Kepler said:
Was there a good Israel strategy, though?

We had painted ourselves into a corner by being their weapon sugar daddy for 60 years to keep the oil flowing. What was anybody going to do? Typically when you have an ally who goes insane you can threaten to pull up stakes or even switch sides. The Israelis understand with the way lobbying and media work in the US that is never an option. Given how we sold supporting Israel to the public as an Imperative Moral Crusade, we can't go back without both parties admitting, "Oh, that stuff we told you since the 50s? That was all lies. It was just geopolitics and the equations have changed. Sorry."

This is not like freezing out the Germans in the 30s despite there being a huge and politically savvy German population in the US. Pointing out Israel's crimes has always been a third rail here for various reasons, a few laudable, most deeply cynical.

Without a plausible threat of withdrawing support and/or backing a different regional power, the US had (has) no way to control Israel. We have no choice but to keep shoveling money and arms into that black hole. It's like shoring up New Orleans.
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We could have let them have their little genocide. We didn't have to keep giving them the weapons to carry it out.
 

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If you pay your taxes now you are a fool! They are underfunding it, they will have idiots in charge and they are forcing agents to go work the border in some cases. In fact a lot of the newest federal hires are being pushed to transfer to ICE because apparently bribing them with signing bonuses and student loan forgiveness isn't enough to get people to sell out yet.
 
LynahFan said:
Depends on whether you definition of "good" is "that which actually makes meaningful progress toward peace in the Middle East" or "that which gets me elected."
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I was going with von Clausewitz: that which advances American national interests.
 
Handyman said:
Yes there was. AOC is walking that line right now (ticking off some on the Left) by reminding people you can both "support Israel as an ally" and condemn the genocide and push for a ceasefire.
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I thought that was the line the Democrats have taken consistently since Jimmy Carter. I didn't see Biden stray from it, but the country took it like it was The Protocols of the Elders of Zion because there were donations to garner by cynical pols willing to throw a bunch of college kids* into reeducation camps.

* Funny story: who turned out to be right.
 
rufus said:
We could have let them have their little genocide. We didn't have to keep giving them the weapons to carry it out.
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I mean there is that. It's what happens whenever one people occupies another people's land, eventually. Ask a Native American if you can find one.
 
The cruelty is... well... you know.

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US Air Force to deny retirement pay to trans troops being separated

The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
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The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move.

The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service.
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These people are Nazis. It is that simple.

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But, you know, use your own judgment.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It was a declaration of war, you absolute dumbfuck.

I hate these fascist humanoid wastes of oxygen with just about every fiber of my being.

As I've said before, when the new United Nation of the Great Lakes is formed, we're only keeping Indiana as our prison colony.
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I have a feeling it will be Ontario keeping all the US states as their prison colony.
 
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