However in this particular case I think “over reation” is exactly the right move. When it comes to war you don’t fight an eye for an eye. No, you fight to wipe out. Utterly and completely. If you don’t then the conflict drags on and on and never ends.
Talk to any decent military commander and they will tell you the fastest way to win is overwhelming force. It was the basis for the Iraq war’s “shock and awe” campaign. It was the basis for the ending days of the Gulf War when we destroyed 100’s of retreating military vehicles. You are not out to destroy the people necessarily, you are out to destroy their means of waging war.
Back to Israel. Look at what they are doing, they are going so far as to tell the Palestinians that they are coming. Called people and told them to leave/move/whatever. If the military calls you and says they are going to block up your city block and you don’t move, you’re a fucking idiot. Plain and simple. Not only that, but Israel telegraphed their plan by lining up their military at the border for a couple days before moving forward.
Hamas isn’t entirely stupid though. They knew they would get world wide sympathy for what they are doing, which tells you the state of the world.
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