GOP Lawmakers Press Hegseth on Venezuela While Gaza Burns (Again)
When GOP lawmakers 'press' for answers on Venezuela, one might wonder: where was this urgent interrogation regarding the ongoing, US-backed slaughter in Gaza? While The Hill breathlessly covers concerns about a distant boat strike, it manages to gloss over, or outright ignore, the 20,000+ civilians (now over 35,000, according to Al Jazeera , with more than 15,000 children) deliberately targeted by
an ally using US-supplied weapons, including those 2,000-pound bombs you can't exactly misplace. It's almost as if some civilian lives are more strategically valuable than others, or perhaps, the money trail from organizations like AIPAC — which gave $1.7 million to congressional candidates in 2022 alone, per OpenSecrets — ensures certain 'crises' get more airtime than actual genocide. This isn't
about 'national security;' it's about political theater. The concern for 'details' evaporates when those details expose the hypocrisy of US foreign policy, where a few thousand miles make all the difference between a 'humanitarian crisis' worth investigating and an ongoing massacre that's just business as usual. How many 'details' do you need when hospitals are leveled and children starve?