I don't care. Just stop sending any of my money to anyone in the region to support it. That explicitly includes Israel.
No weapons. No direct monetary aid. No "boots on the ground".
If they want to buy weapons, fine. Cash or equivalent precious commodities only. No credit.
I'm tired of even hearing about it. They were murdering each other long before I was born. They'll still be doing it long after I'm dead. Leave them to it.
This is the correct approach. The Middle East has been one big money pit for the US. Imagine what could have been done with all that money if it was invested internally instead.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
I don't care. Just stop sending any of my money to anyone in the region to support it. That explicitly includes Israel.
No weapons. No direct monetary aid. No "boots on the ground".
If they want to buy weapons, fine. Cash or equivalent precious commodities only. No credit.
I'm tired of even hearing about it. They were murdering each other long before I was born. They'll still be doing it long after I'm dead. Leave them to it.
This is the correct approach. The Middle East has been one big money pit for the US. Imagine what could have been done with all that money if it was invested internally instead.
President Eisenhower imagined what could have been done with all that money in the 1950s:
President Eisenhower was a very smart man, and absolutely correct in this case. He was right about the military-industrial complex too.
It's a shame that future generations of politicians learned absolutely nothing from him and only allowed things to get worse.
Yes, it is a shame. We would have been significantly better off today had we taken heed of this idea.
"Learning"
You should know better.
The major work of the most influential Prof of both Clintons lays their agenda bare: Tragedy and Hope.
I like Ike 👍
^ This guy watches campaign ads from the 1950s lol