RE: Palestine
October 11, 2023 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2023 at 11:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Always and forever with that nonsense, lol. The US didn't need ME oil, and made more cash servicing the oil industry for murderous despots than we make by overthrowing them. Not by a little, by a lot.
The US broadened it's war because a proportionate response to an act of terrorism was believed by the administration to be too weak a signal to deter future aggression. That's it, that's all. To make our response as disproportionate as possible with as little justification as possible as a demonstration of how far we could, and would go, if anyone else got a similar idea. We can certainly wonder about all of the little side hustles and grudges that glommed onto that decision - but that is why it was made. A decision that petty is what so many people died for. Nothing quite as grand or motivational as some oil ct.
Israel appears to be making a similar choice at present.
The US broadened it's war because a proportionate response to an act of terrorism was believed by the administration to be too weak a signal to deter future aggression. That's it, that's all. To make our response as disproportionate as possible with as little justification as possible as a demonstration of how far we could, and would go, if anyone else got a similar idea. We can certainly wonder about all of the little side hustles and grudges that glommed onto that decision - but that is why it was made. A decision that petty is what so many people died for. Nothing quite as grand or motivational as some oil ct.
Israel appears to be making a similar choice at present.
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