Fighting To Victory
Sometimes, the only way that a conflict can be settled is to allow the parties to it to fight -- until there's a clear winner, and a clear loser -- as this astute piece points out.
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:40 AM
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A whole slew of straw men felled with one post! Nice one, wrabkin. (I think the Death is wonderful part is more applicable to the party of abortion on demand.)
Encourage everybody to keep fighting. When they're all dead, we'll have peace.
Uh no. They don't all have to be dead. War is the original, and sadly the ONLY effective, peace processor. There will be no peace for Israel from Hezballah until Hezballah is made to admit defeat. So long as the world steps in to keep Hezballah from feeling that defeat, Hezballah will be there to lob rockets into Israel. When they are sufficiently bloodied, perhaps they'll finally realize that it is a poor course of action.
I recommend Greg's 3rd link for an analogy that is sadly fitting.
Is this right? Of course not. But so what? It's reality.
And here we see it excused.
As for it being a recruiting tool, how many lost generations can the Middle East support?
If we cut off the food from all illegal combatants in our custody, though, the standard would change 'thatfast'.
By all means, wrabkin, let's hear your scathing, sternly-worded denouncment of Hezballah's use of civilians as human shields.
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