Posted on 03/19/2024 10:34:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that the U.S. shares the goal of “degrading” Hamas — avoiding the use of the word “defeating,” in an apparent shift of U.S. policy on the Gaza war. On Monday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that President Joe Biden shared Israel’s goal of “defeating” Hamas, but believed it was not necessary for Israel to attack Hamas in the last stronghold of Rafah to do so: The President told the Prime Minister again today that we share the goal of defeating Hamas, but we just believe you need a coherent and sustainable strategy to make that happen. … Now, the President has rejected — and did again today — the strawman that raising questions about Rafah is the same as raising questions about defeating Hamas. That’s just nonsense. … And from the U.S. perspective, this is not a question of defeating Hamas. And anytime I hear an argument that says, “If you don’t smash into Rafah, you can’t defeat Hamas,” I say, “That is a strawman.” … [T]he President is not focused on what’s popular, what’s not popular, how do you shape public opinion. He’s interested in how do we get to the right result, and the right result is the enduring defeat of Hamas, a two-state solution that has a secure Israel and a Palestinian state that vindicates the aspirations of the Palestinian people, and a broader normalization of relations so that Israel also has peace with all of its Arab neighbors.
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Can one imagine FDR stating “And from the U.S. perspective, this is not a question of defeating Hitler. And anytime I hear an argument that says, “If you don’t smash into Germany you can’t defeat Hitler,” I say, “That is a strawman.”
Bingo. Eliminate Hamas’ desire and capacity to do harm ever again.
“WTF is wrong with these idiots??”
Michigan. Trust me, all they care about is POLITICAL POWER, as it gives them the authority to execute (or worse) the people they hate.
What SICKENS me is the people on our side that cannot seem to understand this, and thus would rather see these abject Fascists take power than a RINO who votes with us 80% of the time.
Democrats always support our enemies.
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