Is the United States at War in the Middle East?

I love how there’s at least one comment every day either from Congress or the Fake News about how we need to support Israel against Hamas terrorism, but we don’t want to get dragged into another war.

Which is all well and good if you define being involved in a war only in terms of troopers’ feet being on the ground.

But what if the country you are supporting doesn’t need any help from your troops but wouldn’t be able to carry out a successful military strategy without getting its hands on everything else which is needed to fight a war?

You don’t fight and win a war just because you have a well-trained military force like the IDF. You need guns, you need ammo, you need vehicles, you need computers, you need all that good stuff which the country doing the fighting either has to manufacture itself or get the equipment from somewhere else.

Guess where Israel gets most of its stuff needed to fight a war? They get it from us. Put a dot after each of those two letters and you get the U.S., okay?

The rifles carried by IDF troopers are made over here, and the Administration has just informed Congress that 24,000 rifles and other semi-automatic and automatic small arms worth a total of $30 million are on their way.