John Kiriakou

I mean, if you don't have an alarm.

Gasoline.

Gasoline, $12.50 a gallon.

And home heating oil was astronomical to the point where people were just, you know, freezing.

And they're blaming us for it.

So you want to be able to consult our friends and allies so that they have a chance to come up with a plan to make the hurt on their own people a little bit less severe.

Look, I understand what a close friend and ally Israel is and always has been.

I get it.

But I feel like sometimes we act in Israel's best interests rather than in our own best interests.

I think this is one of those cases.

The Israelis, of course, are going to jump up and down and yell about the Irish and the Spanish and the Italians.

But we should, you know, let them vent and then do what's in the best interest of the United States.

And I feel like we're not really doing that.

We're doing Israel's bidding for it.

No.

In fact, to the contrary, in...

The Gulf War, the 1990-91 Gulf War, and again in the Iraq War from 2003 onward, we specifically made decisions that were in the best interest of the United States to the point where the Israelis complained vociferously to us that they wanted us to do A and instead we did B because B was better for the United States.

And we would say, well, that's foreign policy.

You have your interests, we have our interests.

There's no such thing as permanent friends.