Morning Note

Plenty of ideas are out there about how the United States should handle the war in the Middle East. 

Maybe Washington should continue funding the Israeli military, using your tax dollars to support a foreign agenda that has nothing to do with U.S. interests. On the other hand, lawmakers could pull back, end the welfare, and shift America’s focus from that side of the Atlantic to ours. Or perhaps, according to GOP Congressman Randy Fine, we should just drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip.

“In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis, we didn’t negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender,” Fine boasted during a Thursday interview. “That needs to be the same here.”

Pause and take a step back. Conservative estimates indicate the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings killed roughly 200,000 people. Nuking Gaza would make that number look paltry, yet Fine would have you believe it’s the moral thing to do. We hope he gets the help he needs.

Read more and watch the Congressman’s comments here.