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BCR
I’m from the Colonel Kurtz school of warfare. My favorite lines:
“I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn't know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it... I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us”
Hamas is the defacto government of the Gaza Strip and its actually in their charter to commit genocide on the Jews. Bad PR? Certainly, but that falls into the judgement aspect of above quote. Judgement and restraint prolongs shit and kills as many in the end. Plus life as a scrub man/woman on the West Bank isn’t exactly a pleasant life. There are things worse than death.
I recall my grandfather talking to me about WW2. He was in the South Pacific. I asked him about Hiroshima and the bomb? He said more would have died and what’s better? Rape and pillage or gone in a moment? I couldn’t argue.