Via AmbivaBlog:
How do you deal a decisive, clean blow to a terrorist organization that uses its own neighbors as human shields? You don’t. You either grant them an unacceptable kind of immunity, or you go after them, whatever it takes, and become a hated slaughterer yourself. The terrorists are not blamed, because, after all, they were not harming their neighbors; only living and quietly stockpiling arms among them, and even dispensing social services. The death and destruction they call down on their neighbors serves their purposes, and they have proven before that they have no scruples about sacrificing Muslim lives for the cause. (Two Israeli Arab boys were killed by a Hezbollah rocket that struck Nazareth.) But they are not blamed. Even though the catastrophe for their people may prove a perverse victory for them. Because their power feeds on chaos, suffering, and rage.This is how terrorists have the world by the balls.
If terrorists have us by the balls it’s only to hold us in down so they can reach for our throats. We have nothing but a series of increasingly difficult choices ahead of us. There are no “good” solutions. There are no skillful maneuvers that will provide an easy way out. There’s only victory, at a cost few of us have contemplated, or extermination. Acknowledging that WW III is upon us (It’s almost trendy these days, which is long overdue, but fine with me) only hints at how difficult the road ahead will be.
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