Why develop and maintain them then?
Replying “in multiple”, since you all took umbrage at my post...
Believe me when I tell you there is nothing more I would like to see than to watch Israel reduce a good part of the Islamic world to ashes if she were to be attacked.
But having said that, I don’t believe she will.
No one else in the world defends their own territory better than do the Israelis. I speak this as an American, and they do it better than the Americans (heck, look at our southern border vis-a-vis the Israel/Gaza border and the security walls they’ve built — why don’t we have that here?). Here on FR we brag about “being the best”, but I wouldn’t want to put a cohort of American troops against an equal number of Israelis — and predict the outcome.
But that’s different than attacking another country and killing civilians.
I don’t believe the “Jewish consciousness” will permit them to do that.
Inner guilt will “get them”.
Mind you, _I_ have no problems with attacking other countries and killing their civilians, but I’m not Jewish. I personally have no regrets about “a Hiroshima” or “a Nagasaki”. Back in 2001, I was one of the first here on FR to advocate the destruction of Mecca and Medina as “symbolic retaliation” for the World Trade Center attacks. I still believe that, some day, that will become the climax of the Christian/Islamic struggle.
But Israel will never “do a Hiroshima”. Something intangible that’s “inside her people” will hold her back.
As I concluded with my original post, it’s speculation on my part. If your dander was raised, so be it — I intended for the posting to be “on the incendiary side” of argument. But I stand by it as a matter of reason and realism.
As one of The West, I want Israel to win and Islam to disappear. That’s as clearly-worded as I can say it. But I also can see that — long term — the odds are against her.
Then again, I’ve read Joel Rosenberg’s books!