Our leaders should have principles. If Biden truly believes that Israel deserves support then that is his position. In that case he is doing the “right” thing.
If he believes that Israel is going too far like the US after 9/11 and committing war crimes just like those in Ukraine, he owes it to everybody he represents to say so and to stop sending the weapons.
Anything you do will have consequences for decades to come, so for fuck’s sake at least make it something worthwhile. Do something you will look back on with pride rather than have to justify while battling hand-wringing guilt and uncertainty.
The 1953 Iranian coup d’état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d’état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953.
The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), or the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī),[4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
Good article!
Our leaders should have principles. If Biden truly believes that Israel deserves support then that is his position. In that case he is doing the “right” thing.
If he believes that Israel is going too far like the US after 9/11 and committing war crimes just like those in Ukraine, he owes it to everybody he represents to say so and to stop sending the weapons.
Anything you do will have consequences for decades to come, so for fuck’s sake at least make it something worthwhile. Do something you will look back on with pride rather than have to justify while battling hand-wringing guilt and uncertainty.
And here’s an example:
Which, of course, eventually led to this:
The guys got a few years maybe to look back, which is why octogenarians shouldn’t be running the country.