• sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    This will blow back way harder on Israel than America.

    I dont think the US will walk away from this free of any consequences at all. The chickens will come home to roost. You dont kill that many people and leave that many affected victims and just saunter off into the sunset with no consequences whatsoever.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      18 days ago

      But I was told terrorists hate America because of their freedom. Are you saying it was really their foreign policy this whole time?

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      18 days ago

      The only real chance the US had to not get caught up in the quagmire would have been to unload a battalion or three of marines and go Hamas-hunting themselves, keeping an eye on the IDF. Make sure humanitarian aid arrives. Ignore the Israeli government where necessary (after all Gaza isn’t Israel) in favour of re-iterating that you’re Israel’s friend and simply taking some load off their plate, make sure to work with Israeli lefties when it comes to pretty much everything humanitarian on the ground, or in media.

      But that would’ve necessitated more wherewithal and understanding of Israel than the US could’ve ever hoped to muster.