Why oh why are you heartless Americans spending scarce dollars on defending Israel from the missiles of an unnamed mortal enemy when your own citizens are hurting so? I feel your pain:
"If it were proposed that this fraction of the tax revenues should be allocated to reduce the pains in the hearts of one thousand (US) owners of foreclosed properties in the working class neighborhoods of Chicago or to improve the educational quality of the pathetic school systems in the South Bronx, Bed Stuyvesant of Brooklyn or Spanish Harlem, no doubt the same senators who unanimously voted for the (radar's deployment) would have rejected it outright with no hesitation or mercy."
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(Originally posted at Perfunction; original comment threads are over there)

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