Explain to this mother in Israel like I’m five, how are we supposed to ask our sons and daughters to trust this government after this farce?

This is concrete dust and shattered glass. This is apartments ripped open like dollhouses. This is families buried — children! — and a nation traumatized.

This is an economy that was already strained, now staggering. Businesses closed. Tourism —POOF! Reserve duty stretching on and on and on and on, pulling parents away from children, dismantling any semblance of stability and normalcy.

We were told this war was necessary. Sometimes war is necessary. I do believe that.

The IRGC is a global threat. I know this.

But if we are in a war then it has to lead somewhere. It has to change something. It has to leave us safer, stronger, more secure in the long arc of things.

Instead, we are standing in the wreckage asking a very........

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