Mr President: Israel has not listened to a word you and your administration have said over the last 4 months, yet military supplies have continued. What you have said in private, who knows?
The US has been drawn into bombing of sites in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, these have hardly been welcomed.
Iraq says 16 people, including civilians, killed in ‘new US aggression’
“This aggressive strike will put security in Iraq and the region on the brink of the abyss,” the Iraqi government said, and denied Washington’s claims of coordinating the air attacks with Baghdad as “false” and “aimed at misleading international public opinion”.
The Syrian Ministry of Defence slammed the “aggression of the American occupation forces”, which it said was attempting “to weaken the ability of the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in the field of fighting terrorism”, adding that the areas targeted were the same where the military is fighting remnants of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group.
The strikes did not take place inside Iranian territory. Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday called them “another adventurous action and another strategic error by the US government which will have no result but to intensify … instability in the region”.
Now you can argue the merits of these claims, but one cannot argue about the possibility of Mission Creep.
The Original Mission?
To Prevent the I/P conflict from spreading into the region.
This is worrying some:
Over 800 Officials in U.S. and Europe Sign Letter Protesting Israel Policies
More than 800 officials in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union released a public letter of dissent on Friday against their governments’ support of Israel in its war in Gaza.
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“Our governments’ current policies weaken their moral standing and undermine their ability to stand up for freedom, justice and human rights globally,” the letter says, according to a copy obtained Thursday by The New York Times. It adds that “there is a plausible risk that our governments’ policies are contributing to grave violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and even ethnic cleansing or genocide.”
It is long past time to put a lid on the I/P conflict
Ceasefire now.