David French
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And then you have this ally who is fighting.
Its pilots are just as much risk as American pilots.
Israeli civilians are under Iranian missile fire.
And he goes, OK, guys, stop.
Just stop.
No consultation.
Just stop.
And Israel has to stop.
They're the junior partner here.
They can't continue being a regional superpower, and they are a regional superpower, without American assistance.
And so we're ultimately in the driver's seat.
And can you imagine the feeling in Israel right now?
I mean, what?
What?
After October 7th, just this purely evil, horrific massacre.
Just if something like that happened to our country, God help whoever did that to us, right?
That would be, I mean, a trauma upon a trauma upon a trauma.
But then...
What Netanyahu seems to have fixed in his mind is that he could then launch the war to end all wars.
In other words, that he could launch the conflict, exert the full power of the Israeli military, the full power of the American alliance, and just take care of it all.