Mr. Bernstein:
“So, is the war on Hamas immoral? Is any war indeed just?”
Let me rephrase your question to highlight just how ridiculous a proposition these questions are.
Is the war on Hamas TASTEFUL?
Is any war indeed nutritious?
You seem to have bought into a legalistic view of the world and how it works. War is both and neither moral or just…it’s survival.
Really, fella, you either break the enemy’s will to fight or you exterminate him, or he does the same thing to you.
So where does justice and morality come into it?
After you win, or after he wins.
Your questions are things that are dreamed up for the aftermath to justify the inhuman cruelty that victory requires.
If you want to worry about the morality and justice of a war, you’d better damned well win it first.
