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How many of us really believe that Hamas militants and their leaders, having been warned in advance of an attack, are going to be sitting in their known locations, calmly awaiting the arrival of an Israeli bomb or rocket which will almost certainly kill them, and at the very least blow their buildings all to hell?
This is the sort of thing I meant when I called all this disgustingly unintelligent.
There's no such thing as a 'humanitarian war' - it's either a war or it isn't, and if you're really serious about taking out the other side, you obviously don't drop around ahead of time to say they'd better not be there when you arrive. If you really want their leaders gone, you mount a covert action with Special Forces,
like the Americans did with Osama Bin Missing, and you catch them off guard.
Not doing it that way, which has a much better chance of success, implies that perhaps you've got a guilty conscience and you know damned well that those Palestinians have at least as much right to be there as you have, if not more.
And if you treat them too brutally, world opinion will rise up and bite your warmongering asses, and ostracize you from the world community.
And that brings me to today's Question Everything: "Who thinks Israel has been far more pain than pleasure on the world's stage for decades, and ought to try a lot harder to join the rest of the world community instead of constantly bitching, moaning, whining, howling, and shooting at it with disgusting regularity?"
What's the point of having your own country if it's just a hangout for obnoxious troublemakers and shit-disturbers that nobody else wants? We've already got one of those - it's called North Korea.
When will it all end?
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew, Tom.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked for our federal government back in the 1960s, I met an old Jewish Colonel who had been involved in the formation of Israel from the beginning, and he knew Moshe Dayan and all those guys. He told me the story of how it all got started, and he was writing a book about it at the time.
His favorite drink was a mixture of comb honey, dissolved in vinegar, and flavored with about two fingers of good vodka. He said this was a traditional Jewish remedy from Biblical times, improved with his addition of the vodka. It tasted like hell, but after three you didn't care if it rained or froze.
His basement rec room had glass fronted display cases filled with mementos of those early days of fighting during Israel's beginnings, and those told quite a story, as did he.
So I have a very good idea how it all began. I just wish I knew how it ends. I think everyone's had more than enough of it by now.