No one in a position of responsibility in the West has the stomach to annihilate or thoroughly impoverish the population of Muslim countries, including the government of Israel. I happen to agree. Any country that did so would be seen a criminal government worse than the Nazis.
A credible threat of force, the Sampson option, is always there. The problem for the Syrians is that when the Israelis defend themselves, quietly, from Iran’s catspaws in Syria, it embarrasses the government and embolden’s its enemies.
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