A guess here: the author of this article is another soft hands professional opinion haver who’s never served in a military ground force. His hypothetical wreaks of notional nonsense uninformed by blood, sweat and tears.
A guess here: the author of this article is another soft hands professional opinion haver who’s never served in a military ground force. His hypothetical wreaks of notional nonsense uninformed by blood, sweat and tears.
Haha, guilty as charged. Well, my hands aren't soft, but I do get paid for expressing my opinions. And no, I've never served in the military. Of course, nor have most people speaking about this conflict. Historians, politicians, your run-of-the-mill grifters. Many of whom you likely agree with. So do you have a point? Or are you resorting to ad hominems because you don't?
Yes, my point is this. If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again. That’s what Israel is doing, knucklehead. Go chop some wood and build those callouses.
Germany in WW2? They really did have concerns for the Germans living outside the borders of the Reich. But that was heavily co-mingled with a desire to restore the borders of the old German Empire (and more). The Germans arranged a false flag attack on a German radio transmitter on the border with Poland, to justify their invasion of Poland. I don’t see evidence of Israel creating a false flag operation that killed ~1200 of their own citizens. But hey, you can write anything on Substack.
"If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again"
Of course! I couldn't agree more! But that's not quite what's happening here is it?
To improve your analogy, this is like 30 men coming from the next town over and killing ten members of my family, and me responding by indiscriminately killing three hundred of the people in that town, maiming around seven hundred more, destroying countless homes, cutting off access to food, water, medicine and power, and making videos on TikTok mocking them while 150 of their children starve and die.
But it gets better!
The people in that town? I've trapped them in there! I blockaded them there by land, air and sea for 17 years, subjected them to oppressive, international law-breaking military rule, and have killed tens of times more members of their family over the past 75 years than they've killed of mine.
And let's not forget their extended family in the nearby town of "West Bankia." Since the attack, I've killed 400 of them too! Why? No reason, they weren't involved, but I've been systematically stealing land from them for decades too, killing them as needs be, and this seems like a good excuse to crack down on them.
*That's* what Israel is doing.
I have no problem with Israel destroying Hamas. I have a problem with tens of thousands of innocent people who *aren’t* Hamas being wilfully slaughtered. And I have a problem with people acting as if the history of this conflict started on Oct 7th. The goal for any sane person here is a lasting peace. I wish both Israelis and Palestinians every success in this. But you can't demand peace while your foot is on somebody's neck.
p.s. Seems like you didn't understand the point being made in the introduction. But hey, anybody can read articles on Substack.
I did not deploy. Did you go to Ranger School (and lose 30 pounds)? Did you serve in a light infantry unit? Did you sleep on the ground under your ‘cho liner and wake with snow accumulation on top of you? Do not test me - I am not going to stand for it. I put my butt on the line, suffered, and had no guarantee on how it would turn out.
No, it’s due to my understanding of history, culture, & religion. Hamas is in the grips of an honor culture downward spiral (think Hatfields and McCoys), and like a fever breaks after holding some exceedingly high value for a time, I am hoping that the downward honor culture spiral will also break (or exhaust itself), at which point they may be open to creating a justice culture (with justice meaning the Judeo-Christian notion of honoring God’s judgment, not the judgment of men - obviously a large hurdle for Muslims to clear).
A guess here: the author of this article is another soft hands professional opinion haver who’s never served in a military ground force. His hypothetical wreaks of notional nonsense uninformed by blood, sweat and tears.
Haha, guilty as charged. Well, my hands aren't soft, but I do get paid for expressing my opinions. And no, I've never served in the military. Of course, nor have most people speaking about this conflict. Historians, politicians, your run-of-the-mill grifters. Many of whom you likely agree with. So do you have a point? Or are you resorting to ad hominems because you don't?
Yes, my point is this. If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again. That’s what Israel is doing, knucklehead. Go chop some wood and build those callouses.
Germany in WW2? They really did have concerns for the Germans living outside the borders of the Reich. But that was heavily co-mingled with a desire to restore the borders of the old German Empire (and more). The Germans arranged a false flag attack on a German radio transmitter on the border with Poland, to justify their invasion of Poland. I don’t see evidence of Israel creating a false flag operation that killed ~1200 of their own citizens. But hey, you can write anything on Substack.
"If I came at you with a hundred men, to kill your extended family, and we killed 10, then retreated, your family would be wise to pursue us and either get our surrender or kill us all, thus ensuring that we could never do it again"
Of course! I couldn't agree more! But that's not quite what's happening here is it?
To improve your analogy, this is like 30 men coming from the next town over and killing ten members of my family, and me responding by indiscriminately killing three hundred of the people in that town, maiming around seven hundred more, destroying countless homes, cutting off access to food, water, medicine and power, and making videos on TikTok mocking them while 150 of their children starve and die.
But it gets better!
The people in that town? I've trapped them in there! I blockaded them there by land, air and sea for 17 years, subjected them to oppressive, international law-breaking military rule, and have killed tens of times more members of their family over the past 75 years than they've killed of mine.
And let's not forget their extended family in the nearby town of "West Bankia." Since the attack, I've killed 400 of them too! Why? No reason, they weren't involved, but I've been systematically stealing land from them for decades too, killing them as needs be, and this seems like a good excuse to crack down on them.
*That's* what Israel is doing.
I have no problem with Israel destroying Hamas. I have a problem with tens of thousands of innocent people who *aren’t* Hamas being wilfully slaughtered. And I have a problem with people acting as if the history of this conflict started on Oct 7th. The goal for any sane person here is a lasting peace. I wish both Israelis and Palestinians every success in this. But you can't demand peace while your foot is on somebody's neck.
p.s. Seems like you didn't understand the point being made in the introduction. But hey, anybody can read articles on Substack.
Where did you deploy for your combat experience?
I did not deploy. Did you go to Ranger School (and lose 30 pounds)? Did you serve in a light infantry unit? Did you sleep on the ground under your ‘cho liner and wake with snow accumulation on top of you? Do not test me - I am not going to stand for it. I put my butt on the line, suffered, and had no guarantee on how it would turn out.
"Do not test me - I am not going to stand for it. I put my butt on the line, suffered, and had no guarantee on how it would turn out."
Why don't you chill out William. We're quite a nice bunch here. Nobody's going to "test" anybody on the internet.
I was just curious if your attitude toward Arabs/Muslims was because of your combat experience.
No, it’s due to my understanding of history, culture, & religion. Hamas is in the grips of an honor culture downward spiral (think Hatfields and McCoys), and like a fever breaks after holding some exceedingly high value for a time, I am hoping that the downward honor culture spiral will also break (or exhaust itself), at which point they may be open to creating a justice culture (with justice meaning the Judeo-Christian notion of honoring God’s judgment, not the judgment of men - obviously a large hurdle for Muslims to clear).