re: #34 Obdicut

Maybe. What’s the metric for success— rocket attacks next week, or rocket attacks six months from now?

In a sane world, the metric for success would be no rockets, ever.

In an ideal world, where Israel is not held to a standard that no other country would be held to, the metric for success is like the definition of the end point of a parabola — as close to zero for as long a period of time as possible.

In a practical world, the metric for success would be the same as the metric for success by a police force with respect to the murder rate — you know it will happen occasionally despite the best efforts of all involved, and that those in charge will search for and punish the occasional perp when it happens.

Unfortunately, the world remains to too great a degree an antisemitic one, which means that there will be no success, only the elimination by Israel of some of its enemies’ most destructive weapons before they can be used and a material reduction of the firing of missiles to the “merely sporadic”.