>>508416542i take issue with two of vance's main premises as expressed in this interview, namely:
a) overwhelming force is the strongest and most likely approach to achieving peace in the middle east, as this strategy has not borne fruit in the past several decades, and has demonstrably weakened our position both at home and abroad (cf. Chalmers Johnson, "Blowback")
b) engaging in good-faith diplomacy and meeting our erstwhile adversaries halfway (eg, pressuring Israel to stop killing women and children, ending supplies of arms to Israel until they stop targeting ambulances and massed crowds of civilians receiving food aid with artillery) constitutes "sitting on our hands"
in conclusion, JD Vance was likely traumatized as a child and after he entered military service, he was singled out for his high IQ + Cluster B personality disorder, sheepdipped as a military intelligence operative through his time in journalism, and sent into Peter Thiel's CIA-cutout Palantir/Thiel Foundation/Founders Fund empire, before becoming a Mayor Pete-style CIA sockpuppet politician whore for Wall Street and the military-industrial complex, in which role he currently continues to serve.
JD Vance's Meemaw should have drowned him in the family washtub as an infant and saved us all from the pain of looking at his weird face as he continues to erase the God-given human rights laid out by our founders in the Constitution.