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In reply to the discussion: pictures from Columbia University [View all]shrike3
(4,051 posts)Even smart bombs screw up. Hamas tends to put its people in civilian populations. Not a new tactic, TBF. They weren't the first, they won't be the last either.
Set up hospitals? My brother was sent over as a special contractor to set up a hospital in Afghanistan -- we were going to do that stuff there, too. Wish I had his permission to tell you how that worked out.
Regime change and nation building does not work for us. Won't work this time, either. And you want boots on the ground? Wait 'tiil American casualties start to come in. Americans will just fall in love with that.
Humanitarian aid, sure. As much as we can get over there. Military action? It'd be the dumbest move an American president has made in a long time. They've been fighting for centuries over there. They'd keep fighting, we'd just be in the middle of it. Uh-uh.