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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That would be irrational. I don't think that even Carter would say that spending billions on food aid would be punishment. Since you only quoted a sentence of what Carter said, I'm not sure what he meant, but you'll see in what I posted that the author has something different in mind as "punishment."
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Based on his past slips, I think Carter has a problem thinking rationally on this issue. He clearly said that the U.S. and Israel made a decision and that decision was that they'd go and "punish all the people in Palestine." That's fucked up. This is a man who knows very well the difference between decisions to punish and well-meaning foreign policy decisions that go awry or harm people. If he thinks supporting or not supporting Hamas (or Fatah) is a good idea (or bad idea) - fine. But to say your country decided to punish an entire people is scary. He chose the words, not me.
