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Biden officials alarmed by soaring Palestinian death toll in Gaza
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Supporting Ukraine is the right move geopolitically and morally. We are preventing genocide there. Unfortunately we're in the opposite position in Israel.
This isn't a one-size-fits-all scenario. Some conflicts are just and some are not. We are supposed to elect folks with the judgment to determine which is which. Unfortunately Biden made a bad call here and the other side of the aisle is even more rabidly anti-Muslim and certainly wouldn't handle this any better, so the Palestinian people will have to spend the blood of children until the toll is too great to ignore and only then will we put pressure to Israel to find a non-genocidal way to move forward.
I agree. I'm not sure why you thought that perhaps I didn't.
Yes, and that is exactly why it becomes difficult to sell the idea of interventionist policy. When the people of the world see the United States as no longer being capable of differentiating between a just and unjust conflict then all that is left is the belief that every decision that is made is being done to drive the military industrial complex and the capitalist lust for infinite growth at any cost. When that happens you are implicitly losing the moral justification that may exist because people no longer believe they can trust your motives. There are consequences to bad judgement.
I never said or implied that it was.
My argument is that the historical track record of the United States in determining this has irrevocably damaged the public trust to the degree that many rational people are becoming apathetic to the political process because no matter what they do it only results in violence against innocent people. You can disagree with this if you wish, but I have seen so much of this sentiment lately that I am really not sure if Biden can win based on how bad his judgement has been in dealing with this conflict. At some point it doesn't matter if you are better than the alternative if the average person no longer cares enough to make a distinction.