Should the US hold Iran responsible for providing weapons to the "Houthis"?
And should the world hold the US responsible for providing weapons to Israel's "plausible" genocide?
At a recent press conference, President Joe Biden was asked about Iran
John Mearsheimer, a prominent political science professor at the University of Chicago, noted that Joe Biden is responsible for providing weapons to Ukraine and Israel and Biden has already said the Israel is engaged in indiscriminate bombing.
Transcript:
Napolitano: .. here's the president outside the White House ..
basically he's expressing an opinion about whether
those who supply weapons are responsible
for the manner in which the weapons are used.
Take a listen to this:
Reporter: Have you made a decision on how you will respond to
attacks? Do you hold Iran responsible for the deaths of three Americans?
Biden: I do hold them responsible in the sense that they're supplying the weapons to the people who did this.
Reporter: What will happen in response?
Biden: Well we'll have that discussion.
What's different this time?
Biden: We'll see.
Napolitano: So the president believes that he can hold responsible for attacks those who supply the weapons.
I guess he forgot what he's doing in Ukraine, what he's supplying in Ukraine and what he's supplying to Israel.
Mearshimer: Well you want to remember with regard to Israel's behavior in Hamas he made it very clear at least at least one point that he thought that the bombing was indiscriminate .. that the Israelis were engaged in indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.
Napolitano: Using American bombs to engage in the indiscriminate bombing.
Mearshimer: Yes
And I would also note to you that and we've talked about this before that the Israelis are dropping 2,000 and 1,000 pound bombs in areas that are filled with civilians and the end result is that they're killing huge numbers of civilians.
It's the United States that's providing him with those bombs and as this war has gone on we have fed the Israeli military more and more weaponry as many Israelis including Israeli generals have made clear they could not fight this war the way they're fighting it without American assistance.
This is why uh you know on the whole subject of genocide the Americans are complicitous.
Napolitano: The Americans are absolutely complicit I mean we're violating federal law law which prohibits us from giving military assistance to countries that uh engage uh in genocide.
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