I mean it also shows that the Biden approach to getting a ceasefire is asking Netanyahu "please stop escalating the situation over there and start negotiating" and then getting promptly ignored.
The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance. Dang straight we should be doing everything we can to avoid that. It would be a disaster both home and abroad.
You saw what Mossad is capable of. The CIA will lose much of its presence in the region without them. And the Middle East is way way too important and hot region to ignore
A quarter century ago is not so long ago for these sorts of things. Many of us remember it vividly. Some of us lived in NYC or Pennsylvania or the DC area at the time. The consequences of that year have lasted for a generation and are not done with us yet – remind me again when we withdrew from Iraq or closed Guantanamo Bay?
In a similar manner, I as a child grew up under the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis, though it happened ten, twenty, or more years prior.
A quarter century ago is not so long ago for these sorts of things.
When we spend our time in a niche subreddit that has more teenagers than everyone over 35, the sense that 25 years ago is ancient history is hard to beat down unfortunately.
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u/Broad_Procedure Oct 08 '24
I mean it also shows that the Biden approach to getting a ceasefire is asking Netanyahu "please stop escalating the situation over there and start negotiating" and then getting promptly ignored.