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I have been warned before about saying things like 'I would like to call this cheap' - what is the proper law-abidin' way to suggest this is cheap? It's just kind of dumb. Germany and Japan were invaded and fire/nuclear-bombed into submission and had radical re-organizations of their governments and people forced on them by American troops at gunpoint and are still under American occupation to this day.
Because I anticipate if you respond you will attempt to miss the point, did America invade and fire/nuclear-bomb Israel into submission after it attacked the USS Liberty and radically reorganize their government and people and occupy them to this day?
But again, there have been plenty of friendly fire incidents involving the US and US allies. Israel admitted the attack and paid compensation a year after the incident to the families of those killed, and to those wounded, and then compensated the navy for damage to the ship in 1980. The US shot down an Iranian civilian airliner; Russia shot down a civilian 747 from New York with 270 people onboard, including a congressman. These didn’t lead to war. Israel admitted fault and paid compensation, which is how these things go.
The only reason there’s outrage is because it’s Israel. If it had been another ‘greatest ally’ like the UK, nobody would remember it. Unfortunately the families of the survivors who wanted more money were taken advantage of by essentially isolationist and/or antisemitic political campaigners in the US who promised to push their grievances, and here we are sixty years later.
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