Posted on 06/20/2024 8:20:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Okay let us not call it a terror raid, but terror works. We burnt Tokyo with fire bombing. The Brits did the same to Dresden. Terror works but I prefer to call it a tactic of war. It is obscene but it works. Its real name is TOTAL WAR! Total war defeats the enemy. If one uses less than total war the enemy is then dictating the rules of engagement and you will lose. I abhor war. If the enemy knows you are willing to wage total war it is very doubtful he will war against you unless he perceives you as weak as did the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.
Oddly Admiral Yamamoto who was educated in the United States was against attacking the USA. He knew we were weak but also knew our industrial capacity to turn out the weapons of war. He said, "You will awaken a sleeping giant." He was correct.
Oddly he planned the attack knowing it would be their end. He was a loyal soldier and oddly honorable, almost a martyr.
When I think of the mechanics of war - I think of Sun Tzu.
Know the enemy and know yourself in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.[d] 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[e] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
33 When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
How do we know that 200 actually died?
The context of the situation in Genesis 18:22-33 is not the same as the context of the war against in Gaza against Hamas.
There are better old testment examples that are more analogous to the situation with Hamas today.
Death of 200 Hamas Terrorists?
What is the value alive? Ø (actually a minus value)
What is the value dead? A Step toward Peace.
The very name “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital “ implies that it’s good for them to die for their cause. (I think that’s killing Jews and whining for decades) So there they are at the martyrs hospital, isn’t it wonderful that they too can become martyrs if they just try a little harder. I wish them every success with that effort.
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