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The West Wing set have a boner for this sort of thing, for making excuses for their heroes because they acted as a result of some supposed internal conflict . The interpersonal drama doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter whether Biden is annoyed with Israel, as long as the latest shipment of weapons goes through. Those weapons work just the same.

It doesn't matter whether Obama had a sad when he ordered a drone strike on a wedding party. Those innocents are just as dead.

It doesn't matter whether Johnson really thinks he is channeling St. Winston Churchill or whether the CIA told him that play time is now over, or else we'll just have to do The Other Thing. His vote for war counts just the same.

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May 1·edited May 1

I invite anyone to compare the response to Syria's murder of Marie Colvin with the response to Israel's murder of the World Kitchen 7. We know what max pressure actually looks like.

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I will take it one step further. The U.S. fully supports Israel's genocide by famine policy in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing in the West Bank although it pretends to object. Didn't Sun Tzu observe that “Warfare is the art of deception. So when you can, feign incapacity.” This appears to me to be exactly what the U.S. is doing. The U.S. claims an incapacity to halt Israel's murderous policies in the occupied territories while it pours arms and money in to Israel to continue those murderous actions. However, when the circumstances merit, the U.S. has demonstrated a capacity to control Israel as it did recently to avoid an escalation with Iran by stopping Israel from over-reacting to Iran's retaliatory strike on Israeli territory.

Meanwhile, in a superlative ironic turn, the U.S. feigned a capacity to end the Yemeni blockage of the Red Sea when it had none.

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so we vote him out. Incoming trump gets his revenge on those that Judas him.. But the wars? They'll continue endlessly. Please some economist: do a search on how if we stopped endless wars and downsized the current war machine MIC and home land secutiity/surveillance apperatus the effect this would have on GDP/employment/home foreclosures.

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