Isolationist America was not isolated from the world. We spend more money on our military than the next ten largest spending nations combined. But empires come with a problem: because they control other people’s countries, they generate resistance, and thus continuous wars on their periphery.
Netanyahu insists that Israel must be allowed to eliminate Hamas. Many top experts contend that Hamas can’t be fully vanquished militarily. That’s a view now also finding voice from the top ranks of the Israeli military.
