Niccolo Machiavelli wrote that, if you have to do something nasty and unpleasant, do it all at once. Then you will suffer bad publicity for only one action, no matter how bloody and horrific, than for a series of lesser actions. The so-called international community’s criticism of Israel for limited retaliation for the recent outbreak of terrorist violence is a prime example. Since Israel is going to suffer the bad publicity anyway, it may as well flatten Gaza and end the Hamas problem forever. It is to be remembered that the Allies had to kill one out of every ten Germans, including civilian as well as military personnel, to end Nazism. | |
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