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Congressional staff say the mood inside the Capitol is tense, stifling and bewildering as members brush off their constituents’ outrage.

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[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not sure how my idea will come across but here goes.

This Gaza conflict is complicated as F. I think most people agree with that.

Pretty much everyone that's touched it has blood on their hands by this point. And everyone in the fallout has been hurt in some immeasurably painful way.

The US involvement multiples the complexity because there is evidently a proxy between Hamas and Iran, and the US is already in opposition to Iran in other ways.

The US is also in the position of throwing its weight around in many other conflicts at the moment.

Diplomatically, this US is walking a thin line all over the place between needing to show strength vs compassion. Using negotiating finesse vs being strong fisted.

Inside the US, our representatives ideally can think for themselves, but as a party they hopefully work as a team to represent the American best interests, vis a vis "the people." Specifically, I mean the people don't always know what they want or how to get there, nor do they educate themselves as a whole about every issue at play. Not to mention that international diplomacy issues are very often not shared with the public.

So, yes, the average human with a functioning soul wants to see a ceasefire yesterday. But what if there is something else at play that we don't know about, which justifies not pressuring Israel to stop?

It's not complicated to say that I don't want my tax dollars to provide weapons to blow up people in their homes.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Just as in any schoolyard fight when you remove the power imbalance and or the bully the problem goes away.

The solution here is to move one of the "kids in the fight" somewhere else. One of them is saying I was here first. The other kid has a rich dad.

We all know what the correct moral decision is here when you take away the political labels.

The big fuckup here was by daddy England back in 1947 and he's got massive egg and on his face right now.

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