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Originally posted by Gattigap
That's repellent. There's an argument to be made about whether the killing of innocents is a troubling but necessary requirement to root out militants attempting to hide in civilian populations.
Trying to rationalize it by saying that the populace deserved it is simply fucked.
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In some ways I don't care if its repellent. The institutional anti-semitism in the ME is more repellent and the measure approach of dealing wiht it doesn't work. So I am about black and white solutions. If we are going to continue to invest billions of dollars supporting Israel and to attempt to realize the benefit of 30 years of foreign policy which has been predicated on the continued existence of Israel being of immense strategic importance, then we have to stop pretending that measured approaches and co-existence is going to work anytime before Israel completely puts the smack down. I don't see it as any different than what we did in Germany or Japan at the end of WWII to fully win the war and I don't second guess what we did there.
Otherwise let's pull up stakes, invest the billions in education in the US and let Iran do what it will with Greater Palestine.
And I am not saying they all deserve to die but there has to be a realization that there are consequences to one's behaviors and actions and in the present situation in the ME, civilian populations, while not active combatants, both actively and passively do a lot to facilitate the terrorists ability to function. You can't pretend on the one hand that you are part of the effourt and support and then claim an exemption from responsibility when you get caught up in the repercussions.
