Saint Patton:
I don’t think you need to read Time Magazine to see Israel’s response has gone too far. Last I heard there were over 900 Palestinians dead and only a handful of Israelis.
You absorb 3,000 rocket strikes in your hometown and see how you feel about things. Send your kids to school in armored buses and then rationalize a response. Abandon the top floor of your house because you wouldn’t have time to reach the basement when the rocket alarm sounds and then analyze your opinions.
Protecting your people isn’t a game of numbers, get a clue.
Loved your last line. The media and Left are now so locked into the “proportionality” meme as some moral law they have completely missed the true nature of war and self defense as using that force NECESSARY to defeat your enemy’s threat.
You don’t tell a cop who has a gunman take 3 shots at them that miss to fire back if they must, but no more than three shots of the same or lower caliber bullet, and care must be exercised to ensure all three shots miss.
The “proportionality” and ensuring minimum deaths in response to deaths or violence done by an attacker – isn’t even allowed in a literal sense.
When a Muslim bomber kills 20 “innocent” civilians and badly wounds another 28 “innocents”:
(another media and left false construct – in war, the people do not consist of innocent civilians and soldiers all “guilty” of some crime in serving their people in the military)
Well, we all know that a pure proportional resonse would be morally unacceptable. We would not – anyone – think it was “proportionate” to round up 73 people and push them into a room with a bomb where we figure setting off a bomb in the middle of them will achieve “true proportionality” – meaning 20 killed by the counter-bomb, 28 maimed, and 25 unscathed but traumatized and having the living shit scared out of them.
Israel is in the right in this one. Not that it always is, but they have a right in this instance to use as much force as necessary to end the cross border attacks by Hamas.
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DonJoe:
Israel needs to occupy Gaza. Shut Hezbollah down and eradicate Iran’s nuclear program, with or without our new regime’s, Obama’s blessings or help. Period!
G-d gave them that land.
1. No one wants to occupy Gaza.
2. No one wants to pay the high price it would take to take care of Nasrallah & Hez after the last whipping he put on the Jews when they went in half-assed. What the US, Saudis, Egyptians, and all but far Right Zionist Israelis want is for the Golan to get resolved and Syria backing off of both Lebanon and playing footsie with Iran.
3. The Zionists are out of luck on Iran. The US will not tolerate them invading Iraqi air space, and wreck all we have tried to do in Iraq. Besides, the Israelis lack any force level adequate to bomb and set Iran back more than a couple of months – Finally, a sneak attack would motivate all the Iranians to rally to the Mullahs and go nuclear . Nor is the US any longer at risk of being bribed stooges of the Zionists and Neocons and starting WWIII ourselves on behalf of Israel and maintaining its WMD monopoly and colonies in the West Bank.
4. God seems to have overpromised land…given the Zionists, Muslims, and many Christians all scream God gave it to them.
