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Wars are ugly and not terribly healthy events. Sometimes, however, they are inevitable and more often than not trying hard to prevent the inevitable often results in more bloodshed. If, for example, the US was not isolationist with its "America First" and Neville Chamberlain was not so concerned with "peace in our time" how many 10s or millions of lives would have been spared? How many people died in India as a result of Ghandi's confused position on WW-II? Keeping to Ghandi.. How many died as a result of his confused position on partition, especially after Pakistan invaded Kashmir? Going to the other extreme: Was the British bombing of Dresden a war crime or was it, at the time, justified and, prehaps, even life saving...?
In the Egyptian counter-revolution 1000s of Muslim Brotherhood activists have died. Looking at the lessions learned from the Algerian civil war, the draconian show of force in Egypt seems to be working to save lives.. Its my hope that the current operation results in a demilitarized Gaza and ultimately saves lives. Enough is enough. That is why Egypt, Jordan and much of the Middle East is less than pro-Gaza in this conflict.
What, however, irks me is is that behind the conflict and all the calls against Israel are backers of HAMAS such as Iran, Qatar and Turkey feeding even more bloody battlefields-- over 2000+ civilians died in Syria in the same period. .And what has the horribly civilized and peaceful West done? US announced that it's gonna sell Qatar $11bn worth of arms... and remained pretty darn quiet on Iran's quest for nuclear weapons...