[Illbay]

"Its object is to halt Palestinian terror."

I wonder. It appears to me that the Israeli and Palestinian game-plan is exactly the same: Tit for Tat.

If so, that ain't no strategery.

The objective ought to be to take from your enemy any further capability to hit you any longer. And that has to be done without regard to body counts.

That's why I thought it was ludicrous when the Lefties in this nation began to whine about how "the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan took far more lives than were lost on 9/11!"

That's irrelevant. We weren't out to "even the score" (which at best would be a cynical, macabre action). We act, rather, to make sure that our enemies soon lose the ability to attack us in such a cowardly fashion ever again, by destroying those who would make such attacks and giving an object lessons to those who'd consider doing it in the future.

The Lefties who make this argument fail to understand that had al-Qaeda never attack us in the first place, there'd be NO body count!

So it is with Israel. I hope they are going to do what MUST be done to protect their citizens, not to cater to world opinion, which will never be favorable to them anyway.

[Cold Heat]

The usual bunch of Palistinian representatives and leaders feel that the west will not condon an Israeli military response of any great magnitude. They think that in the end, they will win, in the court of public opinion.

The worm is turning on them. It is near.

[Michael2001]

I'm starting to agree with you more and more. Revenge is nice, but the real object is to destroy the terrorists capablities. If Sept.11 had never happened, we should still be out trying to root out Al-Qadea so they wouldn't create a Sept. 11. Same goes for Israel and their enemies.

This is the same reason I don't understand the liberals who say we shouldn't go after Saddam unless we have clear and convincing evidence that he was behind 9/11. More important is whether or not he intends to hit us sometime in the future.