Josh Paul, who spent a decade in State's bureau overseeing arms sales, exclusively spoke with HuffPost after quitting over the U.S. approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
It's a little ironic, but we're in the same boat France was, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq after 9/11.
We're distant enough to have some perspective, and we have personal experience with this exact phenomenon. But whether we like it or not, we do have a pre-existing diplomatic and military relationship at play, and that complicates matters severely. Not supporting your allies in their time of need, regardless of whether they deserve it or not, is a heavy choice to make, with consequences of its own.
Bro the US can literally flip flop in any direction every 4 years. The only thing it cares about is money, and the best way to make that money is with war and oil. That should be the national motto.
Fortunately we can flip flop on that too, it's not impossible. The term "military-industrial complex" itself was coined by President Eisenhower, WW2 general and 2 term pres, in his farewell address to the American people, when he explained it to us as a likely future problem.
Before WW2, we disbanded most of our military after basically every war. Much cheaper that way. Though always costlier in the first stretch of any new war.
These kinds of broad changes, like say, battling the robber barons of the 19th century, tend to take us more than a generation to fix, though. We're not static, it just looks that way at personal timescales, about 99% of the time. It's an illusion though, with proper training and/or practice you can see right through it.
Fine. He isn't employed to make policy. If he disagrees with the policy that much he should resign. Man has a modicum of integrity, agree with him or not.