Recall 20 years ago around this time, there were parts of the US govt, who was talking similar. This is not really any different in the saber rattling. They won't nuke Gaza, its too close to them. But no one in government wants a peon who works for them on the radio talking outloud to the public, the kind of thing that the public just doesnt have the training to deal with. But the talk on the inside is gonna be like this, but typically worse. On the radio you're not supposed to hear 20 years ago: "we're gonna bomb those terroistic towel heads back to the stone age." However, behind closed doors and in the email spam folders thats exactly what you find.
This was fucking everywhere then. (its not weird al btw)
While this was never my jam it was never the less part of the scuttlebutt.
Israel is always going to be something of a bugaboo; historically the Jewish People have been hosed pretty hard and that always was and always will be a tragic thing. Whats going on there now, is just the continuing family feud that goes back to biblical times, this doesnt justify it or make it right. But when you come down to it, all a feud is people who by all rights should be on the same team, aren't and are willing to be as bloody as they can before (in their minds) it gets done to them first. There's always gonna be politicians who fancy themselves lords of war, and they don't care how many men women and children they have to leave dead, bloodied, and dying on the way to their "legacy". All I know for sure is there are the people making orders at the top, and people dying down at the bottom.
There's not gonna be any real moral high ground from any side involved. That's for when the dust settles if anyone is left alive to care. War is a house of cards with a foundation that enough people believe is ingrained in our dna, that it doesnt matter if its all bullshit leading towards MADness. People who think during times like this, don't pour gas on the fire. But Thinking takes more time than reacting, and right now, we're still in the stages of people are just reacting. A wise Chief Master Sergent once said: "It's not the politician running off at the mouth you gotta worry about. It's what they're not telling you that'll get everyone killed."
Countries don't have morals, they have interests, and they're all playing dirty pool to gamble on them.
We're gonna be seeing how good of a gambler Israel is. Hopefully they learn lessons from the US's mistakes, but The Prime Minister strikes me as a man who needs to try to carry the cat by the tail before he learns a lesson everyone he knows is gonna wish he didn't need to learn.
I'm personally not going to judge anyone for insisting on proportionality in response or vice versa. I'd much rather a hand full of war hawks driving the bus in the hallowed halls of power accidentally drink poison or get slipped in the shower rather than see soldiers or civilians catch bullets and bombs. Wet works, but most people need to see results that don't raise those kinds of tricky questions. I suspect its because one brings a spectacle and the other is quiet surgery.
Regarding the including comic video: People want fair, they have to wait till after the grave, but by then I don't think they'll care as much. You know how all over the place big families can be. There's nothing much he could say that would upset me personally, I had to make peace with how close to death we all always are, all the time, but then there's a lot I could say that would make him tell more jokes to keep from screaming. I respect a comic who gets out there like this during these kinds of times. There are always more than two sides and the machine gets steered from the back. He's on so much point for the discourse on selective humanism, and the timing of vegans. But Jeruselem has over the centuries become more than a place to too many people to be anything but a hill to die on, they'll never get rid of it. Its too valuable in blood, and you can't have a bloody feud without blood.
Hamas can go fuck itself, and so can the Prime Minister, just like the Taliban and Bush could 20 years ago. Because none of it happens in a vacuum and intelligence works harder than that. The important thing everyone needs to remember is not to panic into escalation.
Always appreciate your posts herring, thanks for the conversation, and introducing me to this comedian. I'll be checking out more of his stuff.
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