I don’t think this is right. According to Gallup, the view that sending troops to Vietnam was a mistake commanded a majority of Americans starting in Aug.-Sept. 1968, a bit more than two and a half years after large-scale military involvement. And from 1966 forward there were more Americans who disapproved of Johnson’s handling of the war than those who approved.

I don’t think this is right. According to Gallup, the view that sending troops to Vietnam was a mistake commanded a majority of Americans starting in Aug.-Sept. 1968, a bit more than two and a half years after large-scale military involvement. And from 1966 forward more Americans disapproved of Johnson’s handling of the war than approved.

a majority of Americans that sending troops to Vietnam was a mistake

What an amazing revelation. Here’s a comment from someone who thinks trying to recover a son of ours who was the victim of a HAMAS invasion and attack is “whining.” It is certainly one of the most sociopathic comments to appear here.

The other amazing thing is the writer’s total ignorance: Sderot is not part of Gaza. Even Mohammed Dahlan and the PA agreed that Sderot is part of Israel proper…..so there is nothing to “give back” because it’s not theirs. Hamas is shelling Israeli towns because Hamas’ is engaged in an Islamic crusade to create a Caliphate on the ruins of Israel.

I wasn’t making an empirical claim here, only suggesting an intuitively plausible hypothesis. I don’t know if there’s any evidence for it.

B’Tselem is being disingenuous here. The stories about human shields are totally under Hamas administration.

In war, soldiers have to “Shoot first” or die. I have to ask, though, whether the IDF in Gaza was acting as if it were facing Hezbollah, which fought differently.

Over the course of Cast Lead, about 2 or 3 people an hour died. This is hardly the picture of an army gone mad. One man with a rifle can kill that many people.

Unfortunate example, isn’t it? The bomb tonnage dropped on Vietnam was about five times the amount dropped by Anglo-American forces during World War II.

Is there any actual evidence that countries were willing to countenance harsher tactics in wars they considered just? Were countries in the modern period really so unanimous in their assessments of whether particular wars were just? (For instance, did both sides agree about the Great French War?) Inquiring minds want to know.

In the meantime, while you are chorusing your Greek chorus, what, if anything, are you doing to protest Gazan attacks ( which still continue albeit in greatly reduced numbers) on civilian towns in Israel? My bet is you’re doing nothing.