Reply #7: gotta throw a little Tao here - [View All]

[sui generis]

this is EXACTLY the way things will be in the future if nothing changes anything right now.

Israel sucks at protracted wars. We all do, clearly, but let's be serious, this is like a war between Dallas and Ft. Worth, or maybe Topeka and Kansas City, MO. The people who survive don't have to cross an ocean to take their vengeance on you, either side.

I don't know if Israel could have possibly been stupider, even if this were a science fiction novel. This "war" was exactly, precisely, the worst possible thing they could have done in the circumstance, and a grade schooler could have told them that.

Not giving props to anyone, but Israel is becoming quite like the U.S. in not recognizing that consequences evolve and perpetuate from every action involving force, such that force is truly the last resort after EVERYTHING else has been addressed.