randomjeeper said:
all i have to say is look at the number of civilian casualties on both sides.
Well unfortunately that cannot be avoided in war. Even in the days of the Revolutionary War and Civil War where men lined up in front of each other and mowed each other down, there were always generals that burned tows and killed civilians.
Where there is war, innocent people will die. What alternative to war is there then? Cease fires? Peace treaties?
Okay, so you are Israel... You agree to this, you agree to that, you follow through and withdraw from Lebanon and Palestine in an agreement of peace to appease the other side only to have your borders crossed, missles intentionally fired at your civilians with little or no accuracy, and you have your army attacked by guerillas and captured something has to be done.
Tony Blair said it best when he said that this must be resolved with a
real peace. Resolved as in there needs to be an end. A solution that lasts. A mere abscence of violence is not peace. A cease fire is not peace. These feeble attempts at "peace" are and always have been merely time for one or both sides to regroup and strengthen for the next round.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, so long as there is one Jihadist fundamentalist terrorist revolutionary Islamic militant or whatever there title of the week is there will be violence. They want Israel gone. They want the "great Satan" gone (that's there pet name for us, folks), they want to bring the entire world under fundamentalist Islamic law.
Sadly, they are willing to die trying.
Let 'em.
