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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
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?
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I think that they might be as willing to kill American soldiers, but with an occupation force in their neighborhoods, they won't be as able. Furthermore, with troops in the Gaza and Lebanon and Haifa, etc. full-time, there will be more ability to distinguish between enemy and civilian. What's more, when you do a door-to-door sweep of a building looking for terrorists, you are bound to kill fewer civilians than when you just drop a bomb and level the fucker and everybody inside it.
And I acknowledge that the military is over-extended. I didn't say I was proposing an acceptable solution. I just think it is the only solution.
If you want my prognosis, I believe that the Middle East was the cradle of modern civilization and it will ultimately be the locus of the cancer that destroys it. Sooner or later, there will be a third world war, it will go nuclear, and it will destroy us all.
Namaste.
