I'm sixty now, and I've supported Israel my whole adult life. I deployed on DESERT STORM, and I was proud of my Army colleagues who manned the Patriot batteries that helped defend Israel against Saddam's SCUDs.
But, I'd hoped that, by this point in my life, the U.S. could start disengaging from being the world's policeman. After 75 years …
I'm sixty now, and I've supported Israel my whole adult life. I deployed on DESERT STORM, and I was proud of my Army colleagues who manned the Patriot batteries that helped defend Israel against Saddam's SCUDs.
But, I'd hoped that, by this point in my life, the U.S. could start disengaging from being the world's policeman. After 75 years of keeping the free world (to include Israel) safe, at some point you can't blame Americans if they start to ask themselves help if they've done enough, and now they've earned the right to move on and look out for their own needs for a change. Especially if it seems that Israel didn't take its own defense as seriously as it should have. (You let thousands of Hamasniks from the Gaza Strip into Israel daily on work visas? It took HOURS for Israel troops to get to the kibbutzes under attack? Many of the weapons in your settlements were under lock-and-key in central storage, where people couldn't grab them quickly?)
I'm sixty now, and I've supported Israel my whole adult life. I deployed on DESERT STORM, and I was proud of my Army colleagues who manned the Patriot batteries that helped defend Israel against Saddam's SCUDs.
But, I'd hoped that, by this point in my life, the U.S. could start disengaging from being the world's policeman. After 75 years of keeping the free world (to include Israel) safe, at some point you can't blame Americans if they start to ask themselves help if they've done enough, and now they've earned the right to move on and look out for their own needs for a change. Especially if it seems that Israel didn't take its own defense as seriously as it should have. (You let thousands of Hamasniks from the Gaza Strip into Israel daily on work visas? It took HOURS for Israel troops to get to the kibbutzes under attack? Many of the weapons in your settlements were under lock-and-key in central storage, where people couldn't grab them quickly?)