Friday, January 19, 2024

ANOTHER POLITICS POST

Another politics post.

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Are there specific war crimes in the current conflict? Probably. But every offensive act seeking out to root out Hamas murderers (who would happily kill you if it profited them) is not a war crime.


Ultraliberals love to prate about "punching Nazis." Well, the reality of eliminating Nazis in the Real World is that you inevitably kill a lot of civilian Germans in the process.


Estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000 to 500,000.


If Ultraliberals had been in charge of prosecuting the war against the Third Reich, they would have insisted that no one bomb Germany because they might hit some civilians.


War is ugly and wasteful, but the one good thing about outright (non-nuclear) war is that it comes to a definite conclusion, which the losers have to accept. Muslim terrorists, unable to mount major military actions against foes with superior resources, have chosen to place their own people in the cross-hairs in order to incite humanitarian outrage. The only thing that's going to stop that vile strategy is if the Muslim people get up and throw the terrorists out. There's not much chance of that, but it would work better than indignant Ultraliberals asking Israel to just sit back and let themselves be killed to spare those poor innocent Palestinians.


ADDENDUM 4-21-24:


Are there going to be reports of bad conduct by Israelis as they seek to root out the Hamas garbage they've tolerated for a decade or so? Yes, there will be, because that happens on every side in every war. And some of the reports may be reliably validated.


That's a long way from the overreaction of American Ultraliberals, making conspiratorial claims of Israel plans for genocide. Some have tried to turn Hamas' actions back on Netanyahu, claiming that he facilitated Hamas in some way. No matter what dirty laundry is revealed for the Prime Minister, clearly Hamas has stage-managed this whole conflict to make Israel look bad, which can only happen if the Israelis kill a lot of the Palestinian people as they pursue the terrorists. It's even possible Hamas anticipated American desires for validation, and that they are allowing the Health Ministry to serve the function of useful idiots, reporting stats that are partly or basically true to distract from the fact that Hamas's endgame is to neutralize Israel's power by appealing to Liberal desires for "peace at all costs." 


It's fine if one doesn't credit Netanyahu on everything he says because he's a hard-liner. But back in August 2023 he correctly testified that Biden's pussyfooting with Iran would empower their terrorist actions. Biden's lifting of the sanction waivers means one of two things: either he's too stupid to foresee the consequences of his actions, or he doesn't care if war erupts because he likes the idea of selling massive weapons to both sides.




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