re: #232 windsagio

Not only Israel, not by half. People have made the same complaints on behalf of the US in just about every war/invasion since Vietnam (ok probalby not Grenada).

The problem with your idea is still that, in the situation of an insurgency war, if you’re not really careful, you can make the situation worse. You can err too far on either side, and its a tough balance to get it right.

I agree that it is a tough balance to get right. Therefore let’s look at what the current half military efforts have accomplished.

1. 40 years of protracted insurgency claiming thousands of lives and a perpetual hit to the economy of Israel.

2. An even more armed and dug in implacable enemy, that will and does target civilians indiscriminately, to the north with strike capability over Israel. They were only emboldened by not being wiped out. The same goes for the Gaza incursion a few years ago.

3. An ever downward trend in public opinion. By not fighting hard and having done and by attempting top be the lenient cops, the Israelis themselves have engendered legitimacy for the propaganda against them. Just as weather is not climate, soldiers are not police.