Seeing the bombardment of Lebanon continue, taking in whole swaths of the city and the infrastructure, it has to be asked- what limits are reasonable, what is proportional. It seems that, in her unrealistic haste to dismantle Hezbullah, these limits have been very much crossed, leading not only to pointless deaths of civilians, but also to an unnecessary escalation. War has to avoid hurting civilians, even if there is an intention to punish them, to scare them from lending support to an enemy.
However, those that say that when faced with Islamicist terrorism, everyone should just roll over and sucumb, are perhaps forgetting the adgenda of these people. they may well be skilled at fooling liberals into supporting them, but their game-plan is as different as Stalin's was from Roosevelt. supposting terrorist,or militant organisations, even in giving them 'moral support' must be frowned on by all reasonable people who care for innocent life. Such people seek to sacrifice innocent life to their goals, not protect it.
We need the wisdom of moderates. We don't need the destructive naivety of fools.
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