On Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested Israel should drop nuclear weapons on Gaza and compared the Israeli onslaught to World War II in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“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 said.
The hawkish senator justified the US nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, calling it the “right decision.”
Graham and other Republicans have been fuming at Biden for threatening to withhold heavy bombs for Israel if it launches major attacks on “population centers” in Rafah. When asked why it was OK for former President Ronald Reagan to leverage military aid to Israel during its war in Lebanon in the 1980s but not OK for Biden to make the threat now, Graham again pivoted to World War II.
“Why is it OK for America to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war. Why was it OK to do that? I thought it was OK?” he said. “To Israel, do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state. Whatever you have to do.”
Israeli officials have repeatedley invoked the US and allied strategic bombing campaigns to justify the destruction in Gaza, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in conversations with President Biden. The scale of destruction in Gaza is comparable to the most heavily bombed cities in history and is even worse than the firebombing of Dresden in 1945.
Which way does the wind blow?
If it is okay to bomb Gaza, does that make it okay to bomb Graham?
One for the suggestion box… Ahem…………..
When we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor
By all the gods, I thought historical revisionism had gotten as ridiculous as it possibly could. I guess I was sadly wrong.
“Why is it OK for America to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war.
And he did it repeatedly.
Yet more insatiable blood-thirstiness from the US Congress’s premier light-stepper. I cannot imagine what motivates him. Just keep him the Hell away from my grandchildren!
In the words of late unforgettable Justin, it is Auntie Lindsey clutching her pearls again.
He is still mad for losing the color revolution in Georgia.
Voters used to care whether he was gay but wouldn’t today.
They should care about his integrity and decency, he has non as far as I can tell.
What’s up with Americans, it’s like WW2 is the only war that has ever existed in the history of mankind. Do they sometimes wonder if it implies the existence of WW1?
As Andrei Martyanov points out frequently, it’s the only war the US ever won and in fact they didn’t win that one without the help of China and Russia. Subsequently they’ve formed their entire concept of their military based on that war – which is why they’ve lost all the others. Without nukes and submarines, the US military would be a Third World military, strategically speaking.
Can’t provide voters with too many references, lest they begin to think for themselves.
Who cares what this lunatic says? He’s from South Carolina which is full of racists, as Ray McGovern pointed out on Judge Nap today.
Senator Grahamnesty hates Americans and supports mass immigration and amnesty for illegals.
He’s on your team.
YouTube should have “Context” on these videos of US politicians like Cotton, Lawler and Graham telling us how much money they get from AIPAC.
They ought to have to wear the logo’s on an orange jump suit like NasCar drivers.
Nothing would guarantee the destruction of Israel more than use of nukes. Does Graham actually wish for that destruction?
And it’s not only retaliation they have to fear. Wouldn’t detonating a nuke so close by irradiate Israel itself too?
But hey, they can nuke back, right? Wow.
The idea is to justify total war and inhumane slaughter.
He can’t find Gaza on the map, he wouldn’t know.
Senator Karen, frustrated about his deformity, and having no children of his own, wants to kill other people’s children.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
A nice item to poll. I think the majority would agree with Lindsey but may be too embarrassed to admit it out loud. But my neighbors would probably be vocal and in support.
I see you Satan. I see you behind his eyes. …No. It’s not just one of your Demons. You’re not fooling me.
And now for the exaggerated hawkishness of Lindsey Graham for his crazy input to make anything less than nuclear destruction look humane…
Lindsey, aside from his obvious lack of morality, seems to suffer from a conspicuous mental incapability.
He’s one of the most skilled politicians in the US. There’s nothing lacking up there. He’s missing a heart, not a brain.
Plus, he does get a truckload of money and support from both the “Lobby” and the MIC companies in his State. He has great motivation to come through for them. And he’s getting desperate because of all the college protests.
Since the next person to order a nuclear strike on anyone is bound for a pride of place among humanity’s historical villians, Lindsey is circling the lunatic’s black hole with talk like this.
Of course, we all know that anyway, but his many returns to Congress are mystifying. His contituents must be just as brilliant.
As one of his constituents, I’ll just say that all of the opposing candidates were similar or even worse, save the Constitution Party candidate, who endorsed him…
The Palestinians are the “terrorists”? One doesn’t have to look at JUST October 7 to see who the REAL “terrorists” are in all this. US Congress “people” like Graham get to sit in their safe big mansions while those who live in the bombed-out hell called Gaza pay the price! Shameful and “people” like Graham should be roundly CENSORED!
It wasn’t the right decision. We were NOT‘faced with destruction as a nation’. By that time the Japanese navy has been entirely destroyed they were not going anywhere.
You are correct that USA was not faced with destruction. What the USA faced, based on how hard the Japanese fought over Okinawa, was the loss of massive amount of troops estimated to be in the 100,000s. Combine this with millions of Japanese that also would have died in urban combat the decision was made to use the new weapon. One can debate if was the right decision from a long term point of view. What one can not debate is that the bombing finally convinced Japan it was time to surrender.
Not according to many of the WWII military leaders.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/09/atomic-bombings-were-needless-ww-iis-top-us-brass/
The Court Historians always win out in the end. Our actions were questioned by Admirals, Generals, and historians, the Government “investigated” itself, and the results are what most people believe today.
The war was already over and done when they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and one bomb was not even enough. They tested and to let the world know what to expect. Ever since they are sure it only takes bombs to win a war, the Israelis are their students, all they need are 2000 pound bombs to win Gaza and the WB.
We didn’t have to invade. We could have demo’d the bomb on a deserted or sparsely populated island. Yes, hindsight is 20/20 but that’s the point. Graham is bellowing now, even with 20/20 hindsight, that it was the correct decision and would do it again.
The US wanted to prove that it was willing to kill large numbers of noncombatants.
Japan was already willing to surrender. It feared the Soviets more than the Americans, and the Soviets were coming.
The bomb was dropped by the US to terrify the Soviets.
Your version of history is false.
Graham and other US politicians who invoke WWII conveniently and dishonestly chose to ignore history. They ignore international laws that were in response what happened during the war and prevent what happened from being repeated by waring states.
Those international laws will be useless in any large scale war.
That’s why they were put in place. Read Justice Jackson’s closing argument at Nuremberg and a warning to his own nation if they think they are above reproach. He would gladly go to trial and have them convicted for starting war.
Lindsay Graham is a shit stain in the Senate.No politician should be able to say things like this. He is obviously mentally disturbed.
He is not the only one mentally disturbed. Have you listen to Trump?
Graham is intensely stupid. Someone tell him the new “Fallout” series is a documentary, please, so maybe he can clue in on radioactivity and how that juuuust might thwart the ASI’s long game of taking Gaza for themselves as what the Germans once called “living space”.
He’s a very sick individual.
You don’t find anyone further to the left than Senator Grahamnesty. He wants to “tell the bigots to shut up” who resist illegal immigration and mass immigration.
Quick search brings up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBWYKIdkidE
No matter how hard you try to make him seem sympathetic and pro-American, it’s unlikely to change many minds.
Yes because just like Japan, the Imperial Hamas Army took 3 months to root out of Okinawa at the cost of 10,000 Marines killed. Meanwhile the Imperial Hamas Navy submarines continue to sink ships and the Imperial Hamas Air Force poses a constant threat to Australia. Plus if Israel doesn’t nuke them, then the Gaza strip might end up in the Soviet Unions sphere of influence and we wouldn’t want that!
Considering US support for Israel, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if- once Palestine gains independence- it offers the Russians/Chinese/Iranians some real estate for a base or two in return for a security deal.
They finally will find the WMDs, it will be American.
Lindsey’s entire staff can’t see the sad irony of his statement. Someone needs to retire along with Pelosi.. like they told Chamberlain. “You’ve asked everyone to sacrifice except yourself”
At this point they’re letting personal opinions that die with them control a nation’s policy.
I did not see the interview nor want to view it. I can not stand Graham. But how did the interviewer respond to such to such a statement from this psychopath?
“Give Israel the bombs it needs to end the war they can’t afford to lose.”
So Graham is entertaining the thought that Israel might be defeated by Hamas? And nuking Gaza is the ‘home run’ they need to not lose? Is there a governmental mechanism by which Graham can be summarily removed from office for incompetence? Can he be charged with conspiracy to commit genocide?
Lindsey Graham is an idiot who doubles up as a criminal-minded person.
It’s a shame that such a person sits in the US Senate.
He is so fucking stupid and warped by eating bs all his life.
Charleston was the largest slave market in North America. Before they got to that they exterminated the Cusabo First Nation. If you’ve spent any time there you can smell it in the soil.
And he calls himself a follower of the prince of peace? So much for christ-like love .
He would not think of saying such a thing if it were the US instead of Israel. There seems a mental disorder causing US politicians to become such psychopaths when it comes to Israel.
Lindsey Graham probably got shaken down for his school lunch money when he was a kid. Now that is he older and bigger and has leadership power, he’s now a tough guy um a bully.
I’d say he could go screw himself, but he’s already done that. A true piece of dirt and a disgraceful creature. He should be removed from office with extreme prejudice.
Lindsey Graham Suggests Israel Should Nuke Gaza
that is almost the most stupidest thing that anybody has ever suggested.
WTF are we even humans anymore?
goddamnit “there is something wrong with the world today”
OMG leave it to these assholes to actually call it.
South Carolina should demand Graham resign but it of course won’t. He wants to drop nuclear bombs on Gaza, he supports Israeli Settlements there. If Gaza is nuked, what will the Illegal Alien Settlers do if the place they want to live and ethnically cleanse of Palestinians is unlivable?
Gaza and Israel are much closer to each other than the USA and Japan are to each other. If Gaza is nuked, it will have much bigger consequences than Hiroshima and Nagasaki being nuked or Dresden being damaged by Allied Forces.
Lindsey Graham is an absolute psycho.
How this man has not been censured at minimum is a testament to how degenerate Congress is.
His constituents are also degenerates for voting that POS into office and reelecting him.
“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock (trial) and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.” – H. G. Wells