One of the statements I’m seeing a lot of is that the Republicans are playing a dangerous political game by separating aid for Israel from aid for Ukraine. Why isn’t it equally true that the Biden Administration is playing a dangerous game by combining aid for Israel with aid for Ukraine?
Spoiler alert: I believe we need a constitutional amendment ensuring that all bills considered by Congress be limited to a single subject.
I do think we should support both Israel and Ukraine. I think that the position being staked out by the Biden Administration of total support for the Israeli government is effectively an “own goal” by the United States.
That position effectively removes the United States from the position of being an unbiased interlocutory. The position we should be taking is to negotiate peace between the belligerents. We’ve excluded ourselves from that role.
What other country do we expect to fill that role? China?
Or to run those recon drones over Gaza? We have no credibility to Hamas, Fatah ,etc as unbiased go-betweens before this started. Our position should be to do whatever it takes to get our people on a plane headed home and punish those responsible.
Yes, we’ve been making the same mistakes for a very long time, under Democratic administrations and Republican ones. The question remains: who will be an “unbiased go-between”?
Would suggest some one from Oceania or Africa, skilled in balancing the competing occasionally violent demands of clans and tribes.
Which country in Oceania or Africa is in a position to offer substantial inducements to both sides? Or counter-inducements for that matter? Being credible in such a role requires a major power.