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Gaza is run by Hamas - muslim terrorists. The US is in a declared war against terrorism.
Yet, by this government bureaucrat, we should not destroy a terrorist group for fear that another, much worse terrorist group MIGHT gain control?
Wouldn't that “logic” apply equally to ALL terrorist groups, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, etc., meaning we should never kill a terrorist to avoid what MIGHT come after? Never stand up to a bully nor confront a criminal for fear they MIGHT hit back? Same wrongheaded thinking.
The reason ISIS is such a terrible terrorist group, one to be feared, is that Obama refuses to do anything about it. An air campaign could quickly reduce ISIS to smoking corpses in both Iraq & Syria, just as we did to Saddam's forces.
And how is one group of murderous terrorists to be feared far more than another? Are Hamas' many victims somehow less horrific than those of ISIS? Does anyone doubt that Hamas would kill every last Israeli, just as ISIS is murdering Christians?
How did this coward get into the military?
I’ll rely on Israel’s intelligence to make the right choice. I don’t trust ours in this case.
>> saying what may replace the Islamist group could be even worse.
Such as ISIS that’s been permitted to flourish?
Then Hamas has won. The have conquered. It will be a mopping up action from here on.
No. It is a matter of resolve.
I imagine some hand-wringer in WWII probably said something similar -
“we can’t get rid of Hitler and the Nazis, because something worse will just take their place”
This is as shortsighted as allowing ISIS to have a permanent state, or Jimmy Carter’s allowing the mad mullahs of Iran to come to power and to stay there. We should not be the world’s policeman, but we also must not allow freedom’s enemies to succeed in their unrelenting fight against free and open societies. Obama can be a patsy on his own time, but he should not be one as the president of the USA.
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Could be, but that's Israel's decision. Besides, I though this was the Arab spring, new governments are a good thing.
If you need to get rid of Hamas, make a plan to replace Hamas, and have a backup.
Off the cuff, I’d say that Fatah would be easiest replacement option, and Israeli administration could be the backup.
I any event, Gaza should be demilitarized, open to intelligence monitoring, and the media and education should be subject to censorship of hate speech, while new political entities are allowed to form. The political part may not bear much fruit for a decade or a generation, but security would be immensely better.
Kill Muslims, then this will not be an issue. Return them to colonial status. At least destroy the virulent strain...
> Flynn disparaged Hamas for exhausting finite resources and know-how to build tunnels that have helped them inflict record casualties on Israelis.
IOW, he’s either carrying water for them — look, they used up a lot of resources to build tunnels which, okay, yes, helped them inflict record casualties, but they still are getting the brunt of the war — or, he’s bucking for a job as a military adviser to Hamas, to show them how to be more effective.
The destruction of Hamas could only lead to something worse if that something worse had nuclear weapons, IOW, Iran.
“He warned that with Hamas out of the picture, the Islamic State, or something like the brutal Islamist group ruling over parts of Syria and Iraq, could take its place.”
Sure. And if you don’t put a coat on when it rains, you could catch your death of a cold.
Get rid of Hamas. Do not allow any other nutbags to take their place. Allow local, demilitarized autonomy, but keep holding what happened to Hamas up as an object lesson in what happens to people who are determined to piss us off.
There always has to be an enemy so there can be large funds to the DIA.