Whiterun_Guard_ posted...
Is it me, or did he not explicitly say to nuke Gaza?
"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a baffling comparison of Israels war on Gaza to the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, telling Israel to do whatever you have to do to finish the military campaign."
Speaking to NBCs Kristin Welker on
Meet the Press
Sunday morning, Graham made the argument that Israel would be justified in slaughtering civilians in Gaza by likening the situation to the U.S.s war with Japan eight decades ago. He suggested Israel would be right to flatten the Gaza striphome to 2.2 million Palestinians, half of whom are childrensimply because the U.S. did it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 1940s.
So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, with nuclear weapons, Graham began.
The senator continued to call the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the right decision by the U.S. That decision ended the war with Japan, but killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians between the initial blasts and the deadly radiation that followed.
Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they cant afford to lose, and work with them to minimize casualties, Graham insisted.
It was unclear how he believed the U.S. and Israel could work to minimize casualties, since bombs tend not to discriminate between civilians and militants upon detonation.
Grahams comments were so extreme that even Welker was taken aback, unsuccessfully attempting to interject as the senator talked over her.
Can I say this? Graham continued. Why is it okay for America to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war? Why is it okay for us to do that? I thought it was okay."
He didn't literally say "nuke Gaza". But it's pretty clear what the message he's trying to send.