Joe Scarborough and the Israeli invasion of Gaza

This morning the Scar tore into some pro-Israeli guy’s langue de bois, aggressively talking right over him and rejecting the applicability of the notion of collateral damage, demanding whether he would be OK with cops shooting children, including his own, to kill bad guys.

But that notion is all that stands between the Israeli government and the Israeli army and incontrovertible guilt for the most awful war crimes, the murders of hundreds if not quite thousands of civilians, including many in what were known to them to be UN sanctuaries for civilians, including very many small children, all of whom they knowingly killed.

Could Joe be ready for the US to dump Israel?

He was totally unimpressed with pro-Israeli guy’s duck-speak about Israel being our only ally, the only democracy in the area, and Hamas being terrorists, blah, blah, blah.

Israel, of course, is not an ally but a client.

Though Joe S did not say this and might well reject it like any good Republican in recent decades, far from doing us any good in the region or elsewhere in the world Israel has always been an enormous dead weight on American interests and American policy.

And that’s a fact.

On the other hand, it sounds like the State Department's problem is not with the applicability of the notion of collateral damage but with the disproportionate number of civilians killed in individual attacks.

It's not that the Israelis are killing children, it's that they are killing too many children.

State Department spokeswoman condemns Israeli attack