Ah yes, moral high ground warfare for the benefit of teevee where we don’t fight to win, we just fight not to lose…..worked well for us in Vietnam, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen, and led to burying my friends from our exploits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps we should let others do what they think should be done in their country and given our track record, we can stay the hell out of it.
There are two major parts to any war - the ground fight and the soul of the fight. To win, you need both and as long as the IDF makes no distinction between civilians and their real enemies, they will continue to lose ground.
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns.
Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
George knew the Euros are constantly bickering and battling, it ‘s what they do.