I mean, I would have been sympathetic to some of the America First arguments ("We fought in Europe 20 years ago, and they're fighting again right now, so are we sure that us fighting again in Europe is actually going to be worth it?"), but ultimately, I just fear that without the US, the Anglo-Soviets simply could not inflict a decisive defeat on Nazi Germany. I mean decisive to the point where Nazi Germany is completely crushed and destroyed. Now, had France not fallen in 1940, then of course things would have been different. Then we could have comfortably stayed out while aggressively arming the Anglo-French in their war against the Nazis. Of course, this could have meant much more French casualties and deaths in WWII. France actually won WWII by quickly losing in 1940 and thus having the Russians and, to a much lesser extent, the Americans do their bleeding for them. Lucky French bastards!
This sort of hits the nail on the head as to the issues with some of the more anti-Israel positions here. America First is America
First and not America
Only, if it's in our best interest to go to war, support other nations, or something else, it's entirely permissible to get involved (which is why WWII isolationism was much harder to justify than it was in WWI).
As I said before, US aid to Israel is really just US aid to US defense contractors.
If we sanctioned Israel, we'd have to sanction nearly everyone else we do business with, and I'm not actually we legally can do that. The government can't just sanction anyone they want, there are rules for that, to prevent precisely this sort of behavior.
and list Mossad as a terrorist organization
I checked this, and it would be illegal to do that. The designation of a terrorist organization is controlled by
this law, which states that in order to be designated as such, foreign groups must engage in terrorist activity (which Mossad does....just like most any other intelligence agency)
and that the terrorist activity it engages in must threaten the Security of the United states or the lives of Americans. If you'd like to make the case that we are worse off every time mossad assassinates an iranian nuclear scientist, go ahead, but I don't like your chances.
Domestically, break up AIPAC, the ADL, etc and require their now former members to register as foreign lobbyists.
This is, again, not legal. You can't just break up organizations on a whim, you need to have an actually justification, and "I don't like them" is not what I mean. It has to be something like "this organization is actually fraudulent and is not doing anything like what it claims to be, it's just a scam to enrich the people running it".
Provided you did manage to find such a reason, you can't require the former members to register as foreign agents, because they're not lobbying on the behalf of any foreigners anymore, you just dismantled the agency they used to work for.
EDIT: Actually, that was wrong, I should have done more research.....in part because you clearly have
not. You can't make AIPAC register as a foreign agent, because it's not. The foreign agent registry is for people who are officially working on behalf of, and at the direction of, a foreign government. AIPAC is neither, they're Americans arguing that our ties with Israel are beneficial, which is perfectly legal (CAIR does a similar thing, and for the same reason is not classified as a foreign agent).
Then fuck off out of the Middle East and mostly let the locals decide it as long as Suez stays open.
And if someone decides "haha, screw you, I'm going to close it anyway", what's your plan? When it got temporally blocked the last time, it cost 9 billion dollars a day in trade, and that was for less than two weeks, it would be fair worse if someone made a serious effort.
That's why we're involved in the region in the first place, it's far cheaper to prevent something from happening then it is to clean up the mess once it does.
