We do need a friend in the Middle East, and Israel has been a friend.
There is 7.9 Billion people in the world, and the United States has only about 330 million of them. Isolationism isn’t going to work anymore, sadly.
Rand Paul is seriously out of step with a rather large majority of Americans, and I’m not sure I buy the idea that he’s OK with funding the Iron Dome at all. I’ll say it, while I’m betting a lot of other people are thinking it. Luckily he is extreme enough that the voters probably won’t hold his shenanigans against the GOP. Tell you what, though. If the Democrats do bump the filibuster back to a talking filibuster, he’s going to be their poster boy!
“Israel has been a friend”
In what way?
“We do need a friend in the Middle East, and Israel has been a friend.”
Some friend, more like an ungrateful parasite.
Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China
https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china