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Bruce In Bangkok

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:25:51 GMT, Steve wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:44:37 -0600, wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:30:40 -0700, slide wrote:

Does not work that way. The more Israel attacks the Palestinians the
more easily outfits like Hamas can recruit. When Israeli rockets kill 5
little girls who are sisters, those girls act as poster children to
motivate the next wave of suicide bombers.

Hamas isn't be hurt here. It's being helped.

Israel has been fighting the same war, the same way, for 50 years. Slow
learners?

Israel's goal is to survive. All of their neighbors either are now or
have been in the recent past dedicated to Israel's destruction. Israel
is still around. So whatever they're doing is working and they should
keep doing it.

They're not doing anything worse than anyone else would do in their
situation. In fact, they've been showing great restraint compared to
what most would do in their situation.

I wonder what the US would do if Cuba started lauching hundreds of
missiles at Florida. Or what Russia would do to simply control
Chechnya even without armed provocation? Wait, we know that answer.

Steve

I was in the Air force when it appeared that Cuba might launch a
missile and I can tell you what the plan was. Eradicate them.

Whether Kennedy would have blinked or not no one knows but I was on a
SAC base and the B-52's were loaded and parked at the end of the
runway, with the crews aboard, and the Tankers were right behind them.
Flight crews restricted to the Base and the rest of us working 12/12.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)