That is a concern, yes. I guess a more neutral military power - maybe France - might be better at doing this. But the question was what the US can do, and sending aid is probably more helpful than sending bullets.
France being the world police isn’t exactly better. Ask any number of Francophone countries. The issue of America being the world police is generally acknowledged to be that the idea of a single country being the arbiter of when force is legitimate is problematic at best.
But the question was what the US can do, and sending aid is probably more helpful than sending bullets.
At this junction, probably not. Any aid sent will either be intercepted by the Israelis (and thus destroyed), or used by Hamas for their own ends (and thus, at best, misappropriated).
The only thing that the US can and should do at this point is get out. Condemn Israel’s genocide, stop selling weapons, rescind all aid.
France being the world police isn’t exactly better.
True, but unlike the US they have an okay reputation among the Palestinians.
Any aid sent will either be intercepted by the Israelis (and thus destroyed), or used by Hamas for their own ends (and thus, at best, misappropriated).
Hence the ’ … on an aircraft carrier’. Neither Israel nor Hamas will mess with an actual superpower.
Are we supposed to be the world police, or aren’t we? I can never keep up.
That is a concern, yes. I guess a more neutral military power - maybe France - might be better at doing this. But the question was what the US can do, and sending aid is probably more helpful than sending bullets.
France being the world police isn’t exactly better. Ask any number of Francophone countries. The issue of America being the world police is generally acknowledged to be that the idea of a single country being the arbiter of when force is legitimate is problematic at best.
At this junction, probably not. Any aid sent will either be intercepted by the Israelis (and thus destroyed), or used by Hamas for their own ends (and thus, at best, misappropriated).
The only thing that the US can and should do at this point is get out. Condemn Israel’s genocide, stop selling weapons, rescind all aid.
True, but unlike the US they have an okay reputation among the Palestinians.
Hence the ’ … on an aircraft carrier’. Neither Israel nor Hamas will mess with an actual superpower.