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How disgusting is this claim? We don't "buy" a sovereign nation. They are a fiercely successful, independent, democratic nation of about 10 million people fighting against countries wanting to destroy from every direction, at all times. We can't "buy" them, nor should we ever attempt to.

They are a sovereign nation under attack. We don't control their response. Grossly arrogant to suggest we do, and Netanyahu has more honor and dignity than anyone on the US side. domestic issues aside. They have 60-80,000 citizens as refuge status in their own country. Their supposed number one ally in the world rejects attending a Senate speech, when she is the Constitutional head of the Senate, then has the UN rep refuse to attend Netanyahu's UN speech. How much more can this clueless administration disrespect them? I hope he does whatever he can until the election, and hope that this recent incredible success vs Hezbollah continures.

Jordan was Palestine. PLO tried to overthrow Hussein and got launched into Lebanon where they morphed into Hezbollah, who has now trashed that country, all supported by Iran, who wants to eliminate every Jew on earth. Not an Israeli issue to settle. Again, and you as others and always, refuse to answer, they had the Sinai, Damascus and Cairo and didn't move on those. So how are they expansionist of colonizers?

Absolute bull#### and end of conversation. If they were "colonist" they would have never given up the Sinai, which they controlled, and never stopped when they had both Damascus and Cairo in their sites. Your view is neither accurate nor informed.

I think you are not informed of this. Clearly, if we stopped supporting them they would lose capability, over time. But, Israel is quite capable of handling it's military needs for a period of time. In fact, after the apparent rebuke from the US, which was ill advised and insulting, and seemingly loosened the reigns, they are doing much better. Israel is not in a state of complete dependency on the US. What they are is an extremely successful democracy in an area of no other.

Ridiculous. He is defending his country against thousands of attacks. Israel didn't start this. Iran, through Hamas and Hezbollah did, and he has a time frame to effect it.

Frankly, I don't think you understand the reality of this at all, on so many levels. They are doing just fine without us, which has been the case for the past few months. I think Netanyahu has finally figured out, after his visit with it's Administration insults, is that he has a time window to get done what absolutely needs to get done, and that time line is up to, but not beyond, the US election. I have no idea how this election will turn out, but if Trump wins, this thing turns.

Couldn't disagree more. No surprise. If he wanted to go against US policy and take out Iranian nuke sites, it would have been done by now. That is not an informed view, either militarily or strategically. He has had a brilliant two weeks while the Biden Administration has been absent and lost, as always. Israel's two weeks are analogous to their achievements in the Six Day War and Yom Kippur, and their leading ally has been purposeless, removed and ignorant. They fight for their lives, we refuse to allow our VP to attend extremely important events at the US Congress and UN.

World peace is not possible when one country is determined to exterminate another. Peace does not result from capitulation. Hundreds of examples of this failure throughout history. Is that another thing that you simply can't get? The Biden Administration's handling of this has been pitiful. VP Harris doesn't show up at a Congressional Netanyahu appearance. Our UN Ambassador does not show up at a Netanyahu appearance. Those are deliberate insults to our best ally in the ME. In the meantime, Israel brilliantly eliminates scores of terrorists who have killed hundreds of US servicemen. Peace? This administration has absolutely no idea how to get to that.

Maybe this is hard for you. Maybe you understand this like Harris, who claims there are no US forces in a war zone. When you have a carrier task force and commercial shipping being shot at scores at times per day, you are in a war status. The carrier task force commander, defending his group, proposed to the the administration that they change the ROE to be allowed to attack the shooters, instead of simply defending against the aggression. Refused. Nobody wants war, but when one side wages it, it has to be responded to, or you get more. What you permit, you promote. Is that hard?

I feel fine, and nothing done here effects that. You posting stupid nonsense, or Harris being ignorant of real world US military action, or Biden being totally incompetent and disassociated with reality is not my concern.

This would be the perfect time to execute what was asked by the Eisenhower carrier task force commander; you know, the multiple US Navy ships that were daily defending themselves and commercial shipping against missile attacks, but, according to candidate Harris, "is not in a war zone." He petitioned to the US command authority, which would be Him->Fifth Fleet->Chief of Naval Operations->Chairman Joint Chiefs->President, to pursue active action against the Houthie aggression against US Naval forces and commercial shipping, instead of being goalies against this loony group. Request denied from the Administration, who is led by someone who can't function.

Really? Do you actually know what is going on? Maybe not. Maybe you are like candidate Kamala Harris who stated in her debate" "As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world — the first time this century,” Harris said. Are you as stupid as she, when there were thousands of US sailors and carrier pilots defending against scores of missiles fired at them and commercial shipping in the Red Sea, as well as supporting Israel in a massive Iranian launch against Israel? It's the same ignorance as Biden saying nobody died during his watch, ignoring much publicized deaths of US military. I often wonder if claims such as these are from sane people.

My favorite fly fishing place. Do it a couple times every year. Sorry to diminish the seriousness of this, but GREAT fly fishing place.

We really enjoy mushrooms so i purchase plugs for shitake, oyster and lion's mane mushrooms. I drill holes in 6-8" white oak limbs and implant the spore plugs. The limbs must be disease free and the spores not placed for a couple weeks after cutting because the tree has a natural defense against them until that time elapses. Takes a bit of time, but with proper care and storage location, they produce and are much better than store bought.

Nobody "tough" or in the least intelligent, allowed themself to be drafted then. A number of fakes, John Kerry comes to mind, served as officers for their own personal reasons, but nobody allowed themselves to be drafted, and serve as enlisted, unless they had no option or were crazy.

Say what you want about Trump, but everybody who could, dodged the draft during the mandatory draft period of Vietnam run by LBJ. Everyone. Completely different world. To not acknowledge that is pure ignorance.

I get what you're saying but the intel sharing between the Israelis and the rest of the world, since the early 80's has been the same. They simply don't reveal what they are going to do except for AWACs noticeable flights, and they don't reveal the actual mission of those flights. The US and the UN in particular, which is nothing more than a US funded spy haven, are not good at keeping secrets. Everybody knows it, and plans accordingly.

The Israelis never inform the US or anyone else on their super secret ops. Never told us about the operations regarding taking out Iraq or the Syrian nuc plants. They don't trust the US ability to not leak. Completely justified. What they do is tell us about air activities that the US would notice anyway, as we have AWAC coverage and would spot, so as not to surprise. Very smart to withhold this info until completed. The US is an intel sieve.

That's what happens when one group builds a successful democracy and the other spends billions building tunnels to support an attack on your neighbor, and does nothing else. Let's see. Hamas has done nothing and waged the most barbaric attack in recent decades. Hezbollah is another non state entity that possesses more missiles than Germany and France combined, at leas before the massive recent launches, solely designed to attack Israel. Israel also faces attacks from Syria, the Houthis and Iran, constantly. Israel has offered a Palestinian state more than once and always rejected. No other Arab state will support accommodating the Palestinians. Not a single entity who insists on a Palestinian state offers up any realistic leadership that does not want Israel eliminated. Israel faces hundreds or missiles every day. Sure, people in the United States have any standing for condemnation.

Or have them all killed, as has been tried many times, and is the stated goal now, though they settled in this land owned by them, by international agreement, successfully developed by them, creating a democratic culture and economy not ever approximated by those who are trying to exterminate them, with nobody to "negotiate" with who has not publicly expressed a goal to kill them all. Sure..They're the problem.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here, but having 8000 missiles fired at your civilian population in the past year, by an entity that has expressed a desire to kill every single one of you, wherever you live, might alter your view.

Nonsense. It is a country who has carved incredible success for its people in an area where that has not existed, and is under daily attack on three fronts, being supported by a distant enemy ever single freakin' day. There is no entity, anywhere, who deserves our or other's support more. Period. The Palestinian thing is nonsense. Turkey was the Palestinian state. Arafat tried to overthrow Hussein, the decent Hussein. Got thrown out and moved to Lebanon, where he destroyed that country and became incredibly wealthy in the process.

Disagree. A philosophical discussion of bailouts was not an issue then. A collapse of the capital markets was, and it would have been a far worse economic catastrophe. Some were allowed to fail, some were propped, and it worked. Libertarian philosophy is desirable and valuable, but there are times when defending the core that supports everything is the right thing to do, then clean up afterword.

Fully disagree. There is a time when things get so dangerous that the need is preserve the system. Our entire system could have collapsed then, with no guarantee of outcome, and it would have been worse for the world beyond our shores. Your last two paragraphs, suggesting the "gov" should have had anything to do with restructuring is a position I could not disagree more with. The gov is horrible at this, and there wasn't/isn't any agency who was in position to do this. The system needed to be saved. They did it.