Michigan’s US Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, voted to support two resolutions opposing sales of military equipment to Israel.

One of the resolutions would ban the sale –- $295 million –- of 1,000-pound bombs, and the other involved the sale –-$295 million –- for D-9 bulldozers.

Thus, a question for Senator Slotkin: If you were a member in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, would you have cast such a vote?

The answer, of course, is self-evident; she hardly would have opposed acquiring military equipment to assure Israel’s safety and, indeed, its existence.

Wait, we don’t have to pose a hypothetical. Would she vote to oppose funds for the Pentagon that would finance new offensive weapons? The answer is pretty self-evident as well. And, we might note, America’s existence was and is not at stake.

Which brings us to a principle I have long held: If you are in a discipline, particularly the law and politics, and will not support a position or act that affects you negatively then it is wrong.

If Slotkin would not vote to limit funding for offensive weapons for the US, then she is wrong in voting to block the sale of such........

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