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Originally posted by taxwonk
Israel needs to be there. Israel needs to be safe. But Israel will never be safe until there is a Palestine that is also safe. They can't do it on their own. Sidd and Club have scoffed at this notion, but the only way this problem will be solved is if we go in and take it all, then make both sides go stand in opposite corners while we separate out the troublemakers.
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I will continue to scoff at this notion. Leave aside that the US military is already overextended. Leave aside that our current nation-building efforts are not going so well.
Do you think Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc. would not be as happy to kill American soldiers as they are to kill Israelis? And do you think that American soldiers will not kill as many civilians in retaliation?
OTOH, for awhile there we seemed to be uniting the Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis in their hatred for us. Maybe forcing ourselves into Israel would do the same thing?
