Gaza War: Expect a Spike in Oil, Gold [View article]
Well, I supose you are curious. Hammas does have a cause. Hammas is shooting at Israel because the Quran tells them to kill all unbelievers, expecially Jews (See Surah 9:29,8:128:39,4:74,2:1... among many others). Believe Bin Laden when he says his aim is to create a world Caliphate. Neither Al Qadae nor Hammas want land, they don't want peace, they want Israel dead and you dead along with Israel. Gaza is a battle in a much greater war.
And I can tell you have not seved in the military. Proportional response is a formula to get a lot of your people killed. Once a decision is made to attack, you want it over as quickly as possible with your goal achieved. Shooting a few rockets back into Gaza (a proportional response) will achieve nothing. When the pain is great enough, the hostilities will cease; ask Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Disproportional force accellerates the cessation of hostilities.
On Jan 04 08:40 PM petetoth wrote:
> "If someone kept shooting rockets at you house and family for eight > years and you kept asking them to please stop but the continued you'd > get pretty angry wouldn't you." > > GlobalHOBBIT - only a fool would not be curious as to WHY someone > would fire rockets at them. A terrorist is always fighting for a > cause. > > During the American Revolution, Americans were the terrorists, or > freedom-fighters if you prefer. It all depends on the side you get > your information from. >
Gaza War: Expect a Spike in Oil, Gold [View article]
And I can tell you have not seved in the military. Proportional response is a formula to get a lot of your people killed. Once a decision is made to attack, you want it over as quickly as possible with your goal achieved. Shooting a few rockets back into Gaza (a proportional response) will achieve nothing. When the pain is great enough, the hostilities will cease; ask Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Disproportional force accellerates the cessation of hostilities.
On Jan 04 08:40 PM petetoth wrote:
> "If someone kept shooting rockets at you house and family for eight
> years and you kept asking them to please stop but the continued you'd
> get pretty angry wouldn't you."
>
> GlobalHOBBIT - only a fool would not be curious as to WHY someone
> would fire rockets at them. A terrorist is always fighting for a
> cause.
>
> During the American Revolution, Americans were the terrorists, or
> freedom-fighters if you prefer. It all depends on the side you get
> your information from.
>