Sir WakWak on Nostr: “[I]t took 'a long, long discussion' with Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, a famously hawkish ...

“[I]t took 'a long, long discussion' with Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, a famously hawkish Democratic senator from Washington state, for Biden to adopt a more hardline position....(Jackson would later be called a 'patron saint of neoconservatism'; his former aides Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz were architects of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.)

..In 1982, the year Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu first met,..”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231222161327/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/how-joe-biden-became-americas-top-israel-hawk/