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Linda Weide's avatar

Thank you for laying the situation out so clearly in contrast to the mainstream press. I am frightened thinking about what this all means. I am sitting in Germany where the anti-immigrant feelings are increasing as the elections in Bayern and Hesse yesterday showed. Yet, I assume there will be a new wave of immigrants from Palestine here. Hamas does not speak for all Palestinians and Netanyahu does not speak for all Israeli's yet they have just elevated the misery of lives of people in their regions. I see Nagorno-Karabakh wiped out of Armenians and Ukrainians suffering from the war started by Putin. It seems we are moving more in the direction of "strong men" waging war to further their hold on their people, and increase their personal fortunes. Is our planet imploding from wars or the environment or both at the same time?

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Michael Wild's avatar

I agree with much of this article. The Republicans are indeed lying shamelessly and irresponsibly. Alas that’s hardly news. But I think it’s serious over-reach to say the horrific body count on both sides represents “ a devastating failure of US policy in the region”. There is only so much that a foreign government – even a superpower like the US can do in a place like the Middle East. In this disaster both sides clearly hate each other and are utterly determined not to make concessions and indeed to continue doing things they know will infuriate the other side.

Trump continued to show his grandiose sense of his importance by saying this wouldn’t have happened if he had been President. (Ditto the Russian invasion of Ukraine and just about anything else bad that has happened). Let’s not follow him in the delusion that we can largely get the world to act in the way that we want.

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