Pausing a shipment of weapons sends a message that the U.S. values human life.
This week Sen. Lindsey Graham delivered another classic grandstanding moment during a Senate budget hearing. Citing reports that President Biden was pausing weapons shipments to Israel, Graham expressed his displeasure with his usual demonstrative hand gestures and a well-timed table slap. He even leaned back and licked his lips after asking the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., about dropping atomic bombs to end World War II.
What Graham’s line of questioning didn’t allow for is the answer to the most important question: why. Why is the invasion of Rafah where Biden would pause? Concern about a larger humanitarian crisis is surely part of it. Before Christmas, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J.
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