The article is paywalled does anyone have the full text?
Holy fuck. That’s one hell of a mask-off moment. And it shows in the astounded reactions of the interviewer in the transcript.
“We’re honest politicians. When we’re bought, we stay bought.”
Wow, what pieces of shit. I had often wondered if it was just pride and sunk cost fallacy, but they’re pieces of shit
Maybe I’m naive but I bought into it at first. Israel did suffer a horrible terrorist attack, their citizens were kidnapped, and terrorists were hiding among Palestinians, so a military response could be expected. But there’s got to be a point where they recognize the harm to innocent civilians, where enough is enough and they’ve long past it for most people. Yet still trying to justify it?
Man, Jacob Lew seems like a piece of shit, after reading all of that.