Posted by
realetybytes on Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:21:43 PM
...is that it means you will have more wars!
We seem to have decided that if someone is attacked, they have the responsibility to protect the citizens of the country that attacked them! This is stupid on its face. If the country starting a war does not care what happens to its citizens, why should the country that is being attacked?
If someone attacks me or my country, I say reign down as much death and destruction as can be mustered, starting with their schools and hospitals. Use the dirtiest, most deadly weapons possible, designed to maim and kill as many people as you can. Nuke them for throwing a stone, if they are far enough away from you or your allies.
We make all these ignorant rules about protecting "innocents", while their leaders try and kill others. Kill them all. That is war. It should be so disgustingly deadly that anyone in their right mind would never put themselves or their citizens in that situation. If the leaders of a nation knew that all of their schools would be targeted first, and their future generations would be wiped out in the first instance of fighting, including all their civilian centers, I don't think those leaders would be so fast to go to war. If someone fires rockets at another country, that country should kill them, their kids, their parents and everyone they ever met in their lives, destroy the buildings near them, and poison the earth so nothing will ever grow near there again.
If the thought of going to war does not make one vomit at the very thought of what is about to be unleashed, then we are not doing it right. All of these stupid "rules of engagement" make wars acceptable, and THAT is unacceptable.
Using the current Israeli situation as an example, Hamas is begging the Israelis to come into the neighborhoods, because they are waiting "in every alley and building" to kill them.
If I were the Israeli government, I would drop leaflets letting the Gazans know that if one bullet comes from any building, it will be leveled immediately.
Especially in this particular instance, these people voted for a group to lead them that has long declared an unending war with its neighbor, until that neighbor no longer exists. For them to complain now that their elected leaders have brought the war to their homes is hypocritical at the least.
We have tried to make war "polite", so it can be fought for the benefit of the evening news, with none but the soldiers killed. That is ignorant. War sucks, and if someone is stupid enough to start one, they should be pounded mercilously until they beg for a truce, having seen the error of their ways. Someone must be declared a clear and obvious winner, then there can be peace again. As long as one of the other side exists to say "we are not done", or "we will be back", the fighting must not stop. War is hell, and must be waged all out, or they will drag on forever with no winner and many, many losers.
Trying to make war palatable is why we keep having wars.