re: Why do we waste so much attention & money on Israel & Palestine? Why don’t we just STFU?

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The issue is that money should be staying home.

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Why are y'all so simple that you can't think a few steps ahead and understand that it costs us more money (a lot more) if we fool around and allow shipping lanes to be disrupted by foreign instability, which they inevitably will if we don't exert some kind of influence internationally?

Do you realize that that's exactly what pulled us into WWI? The Germans kept attacking and killing American civilians on shipping vessels. We were going to stay out of that war.

Y'all don't want to send troops anywhere for anything and you don't want to strategically support other countries to take care of situations that we can't afford to let get out of hand.

You can't just roll up the fricking sidewalk and act like the rest of the world doesn't exist. It doesn't work that way. This isn't the 1300s anymore. We depend on too much trade going back and forth between us and the rest of the world for that.

And like I have said, we're talking about 1% of the budget. 1%.

What other 1% of the budget are y'all so completely obsessed with like this 1%?