We shelled the Druze in the mountains of Lebanon in 1983 with the battleship New Jersey, all that did was get 264 Marines killed. Let the Israelis do the fighting and dying, we don’t need to. Bomb Hamas, and you can bet that Americans somewhere will end up paying the price.
Again, it is Israel’s fight, we should stay out of it. Those wanting to support Israel can go and join the fight themselves or wave Israeli flags over here.
I think it was Bismarck who said that the Balkans weren’t worth one German life, to paraphrase that, The Middle East isnt’ worth one more American life.
OK, we disagree on at least this point: Americans are going to die — there and here — regardless of what we do. You don’t seem to get that. I’d prefer we have professional warfighters take out as many bad guys as they can before that comes to pass here. And it will.
Think we have about worn out this conversation.
Yep.
Aside from all that, people here seem to think Israel needs our help.
We sell them military equipment and have provided over $25 billion for free since the issues they had in 2014.
As you said, you want to fight, go fight.
Same for Ukraine.
Re: 111 - Rightly or wrongly, the US has a strategic national interest in a stable Middle East because of oil.