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Originally Posted by jfman
In fairness to Pierre, he’s been fairly consistent on two points:
- Only nation states have the right to use force to achieve their objectives (and largely without restraint.)
- Military force acts as a deterrent.
We’ve went round and round on the first, there’s no need to revisit.
On the second he’s largely right. For 99% of people it is a deterrent. The problem is that 1% of 1.6 million people is 16,000. Their still to be born children thousands more. October 7th was perpetrated by an estimated 3,000 Hamas fighters. |
It's not a deterrent at all, the first Intifada was stone throwers and the odd riot, Israel's disproportionate use of force led directly to the second intifada with its suicide bombers and the rise of hamas, what will this wholly disproportionate response lead to peace or something worse, history tells us something worse
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Originally Posted by Paul
So you think they killed them on purpose ? To what end exactly ?
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Kinda helps with the old starve the population tactic