The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel
The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel
The exact opposite is the actual reason the US supports Israel.
Oh, you sweet summer child.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories, sorry.
This is correct. I was down with that post until this same sentence. Dude started off on the right path and then just went 180 in the wrong direction.
Israel is the sole democracy in the middle east, defined as a flawed democracy (same as America) by political science.
If we stopped supplying it with weapons and might, it would be overrun by Iran and the Israeli people would be killed to the last. Iran will never stop arming and funding terrorism against Israel. Any apparent respect Iran shows to Israel’s borders or legitimacy is an act, a pretext of peace, an armistice really, until they wage total war against Israel. Iranians man, don’t let the world have anything nice. It is not in America’s national interest to let the only democracy in the region fall, and lose any hope for human rights in the middleeast.
Agreed. Though I don’t demonize Iran to the same extent they’re clearly enablers of a lot of crap vs USA simply selling guns to an actual government that has a head of state etc
Yep. You don’t need a fancy graduate degree in IR to know this. US policy in the Middle East has always been a pretty open book. The fact that it’s often been disastrous isn’t evidence of some vast conspiracy to keep the Arab world down. To the contrary, it’s evidence of deep stupidity, hubris, arrogance and wilful ignorance on the part of US leadership. Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be attributed to stupidity.