Posted on 10/15/2023 8:54:37 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Iran against escalating the conflict in Israel after Hamas launched an unprecedented, deadly attack on the nation more than a week ago.
“I just got off the phone with the Israelis. Their goal is to destroy Hamas in the south and try to save as many innocent Palestinians as possible to prevent escalation north from Hezbollah,” Graham said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Here’s my message. If Hezbollah, which is a proxy of Iran, launches a massive attack on Israel, I would consider that a threat to the State of Israel, existential in nature.”
“I will introduce a resolution in the United States Senate to allow military action by the United States in conjunction with Israel to knock Iran out of the oil business. Iran, if you escalate this war, we’re coming for you.”
Earlier this month, militant group Hamas launched its attack on Israel, resulting in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring war on the group, which the U.S. has labeled as a terrorist organization. The war has claimed more than 3,600 lives across Israel and Gaza as Israel prepares for a possible ground operation into Gaza.
Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, and Israel have exchanged fire in recent days in the wake of Israel’s separate front against Palestinian militant group Hamas.
When asked if he was ready to declare war on Iran, Graham said he was ready to use military force to destroy the funding backing Hamas and Hezbollah.
” I am poised to use military forced to destroy the source of funding for Hamas and Hezbollah. The idea that Iran read about this operation in the paper, or on television is laughable. Ninety-three percent of Hezbollah and Hamas’ money comes from Iran. They’re the source of the problem. They’re the great evil. So, if Hezbollah escalates against Israel, it will be because Iran told them to. Then Iran, you’re in the crosshairs of the United States and Israel.”
Or hanging from a cherry picker
I can’t make sense of your weirdness and contradictory ramblings.
Here is your current chickenhawk definition “Oxford Dictionary, “a person who speaks out in support of war yet has avoided active military service.”
That is fine with me.
Actually, I posted that too early, “active” would ignore Reserves and the National Guard like George W and would only mean those who served on active duty so I will stick with the American meaning.
This was a completely appropriate and typical example of the well understood term “Chicken Hawk”. Yet you went off on a tangent in your zeal to stick up for Lindsey Graham and scolded others, calling them “ignorant”, etc...
You are trying to “win” an argument over the usage of a commonly used slang term using technicalities that do not apply to the gist of the meaning. In the process you are confusing yourself and wasting a lot of effort trying to control the usage of a term for which Lindsay Graham is a poster boy.
This is as silly as "woke" persons trying to control the usage of pronouns.
Little Lindsey is like an obnoxious, yapping little chihuahua. All yap and no bite... and so cowardly that you really want to pick him up by his ears and drop kick him several feet in the air in the vain hopes that it might shut him the hell up for a few minutes.
“A “chickenhawk,” then, is someone who vigorously endorses a war and its sacrifices while diligently avoiding those sacrifices himself.”
https://www.e-ir.info/2014/10/07/the-chickenhawk-argument/
Lindsay Graham was technically a member of the military serving as a lawyer in the Air Force, but he never made any of the sacrifices that people normally associate with war.
On internet forums and in gender discussions I like to use the currently in vogue Alice in Wonderland approach to language:
“When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean “ ;-)
Technically, as an Air Force officer, sure.
Something that I am very sure of watching your mind meandering around in incoherent certainty is that you have definitely interacted with mental health professionals as a patient.
Thank you for the constant nasty attempts to be insulting... if you did not keep it up, I would presume that you were having some type of serious problem.
It was an observation and one that I am certain of.
You are incorrigible and that is why we all love you so much.
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