‘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.
(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.