Unwilling to control its fighters, who fired scores of missiles into Israel at the end of their six-month ceasefire, ..."At the end???" Try "throughout," Mr. Buchanan. See the Palestinian Rocket Report by the Jewish Policy Center, and note all the Qassam and artillery attacks throughout November and months prior, including one in June that grievously injured a two-year-old child at a medical clinic in a shopping mall.
Yet the wisdom of so savage a retribution for rockets that killed not one Israeli is open to question.
So as long as your civil defense system is excellent, a rain of thousands of indiscriminate deadly rockets launched against innocent civilians, leaving CHILDREN suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, is not worthy of decisive military force?
Germany launched fourteen hundred indiscriminate V2 rockets against Britain, another 1,600 against Belguim, and another 75 against France - and nobody batted an eye when the allies stormed in and utterly destroyed the German government and military.
Here's what the German city of Dresden looked like when the allies got sufficiently fed up with indiscriminate rocket attacks against civilians:
As if we have anything to say about precision attacks against military targets in Gaza with minimal collateral damage.
Hamas’ decision to fire rockets into Israel at the end of the six-month cease-fire was an act of war whether or not anyone was killed. What does Buchanan expect Israel to do? Should it have sat through continued bombings and rocket attacks until someone was killed? How many deaths and attacks does Israel have to suffer until it is permitted to defend itself?
Buchanan’s entire assessment of this situation is way off base. President Bush’s policy of trying to carve a Palestinian state out of Israel can hardly be called favorable to Israel in any sense of the word and is proving to be a dismal failure.
In the end, the only way for Israel to deal with enemies like Hamas who want to destroy her is to kill them first.
Ah, the perennial perpetuation of the "we bombed Dresden to kill civilians" balderdash.
Do a bit of homework. The actual AAF AAR is out there. It is twenty pages on why we hit Dresden and guess what? Punishing German civilans is not listed. Destroying optics and munitions factories is. Destroying the hub of three different rail lines is. Honoring the multiple requests from the advancing Russian army is.
But don't let the facts ruin a good piece of propoganda.