‘Why is the US bombing Iran?’ has got to be one of the most searched prompts on google these past few days. And the closest thing to a current answer you will find is “We attacked them because they were going to have nukes and then use them on us, it’s self-defense.” - There is a lack of evidence for this claim btw.
That is like as if you invade someone’s home, shoot and kill them and your defense in court for it is, “Your honour, I had to do it because I had suspicions they were going to adopt a guard dog and then use that guard dog to attack me while I was walking down the street!”
Blatant, mask-off imperialism. How anyone can continue to view America and Israel on the right side of history baffles me.
It’ll be “Iran is bad and evil, and obviously we could not allow them to acquire a nuke, but we care about human life and blowing up 165 little girls is an atrocity, which is why under my administration we will only be killing their parents”
If anyone tries this on me, my response will be “If Iran had nukes, those schoolgirls would still be alive”
(Based on arguments I’ve had with supposed ‘bleeding heart lefty’ Zionists)
A large number of people would then counter with ‘those girls would be alive but then Israel would be a smoking radioactive crater’. They simply don’t ‘value’ (or consider, for that matter) non-white people. The calculus here is 1 Israeli > any number of non-Israelis.
You can’t argue or counter argue a liberal into the correct position, it just throws their white supremacy into stark relief.
That being said, I think it could be a useful counter to some people, but yeah not a silver bullet retort, if that makes sense.