Graham: “I Just Lost All Confidence” In Lloyd Austin

“He’s so naïve. I mean, I just lost all confidence in this guy. How about focusing on protecting our soldiers, men and women in Syria and Iraq? Strategic defeat would be inflaming the Palestinians? They’re already inflamed. They’re taught from the time they’re born to hate the Jews and to kill them. They’re taught math: If you have 10 Jews and kill six, how many would you have left?

“This is a radicalized population. I don’t want to kill innocent people. But Israel is fighting not just Hamas, but the infrastructure around Hamas. Look what happened to the Israeli hostages when they were presented to the Palestinian population.

“It’s beyond naïve.I like Secretary Austin, but this war has shown to me if we were attacked like this, which we were on 9/11, if somebody called for us within two months to have a cease-fire against Al Qaeda, we would have laughed them out of town, we would have run them out of town. Secretary Austin is telling Israel things that are impossible to achieve.” – Sen. Lindsey Graham, today on CNN.

Sec. Austin is wrong to suggest that strategic defeat for Israel would be inflaming the Palestinians.

Strategic defeat is letting Hamas stand. pic.twitter.com/5xilJSH9Ia

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 3, 2023