▲ | GlacierFox 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Yeah it's surreal. Imagine if a terrorist group hopped the border into the USA and gleefully massacred a couple thousand people and then took loads of hostages into one of the most densely packed, boobie trapped , fundamentalist hell holes on the planet while being protected by the death-cult populace. That place would be leveled and you wouldn't hear a peep of opposition. | ||||||||||||||
▲ | ben_w 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
> That place would be leveled and you wouldn't hear a peep of opposition. You wouldn't hear any opposition from inside the USA. At the same time, the USA levelling the place would create a lot of opposition basically everywhere else. The UK government trying to toe the line with the USA about invading Iraq in the name of the GWOT was met with 10-16% of the UK population marching in protest against UK involvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot... This is something I bring up whenever anyone can't understand why Israel's response to Hamas' attack nearly two years ago now is likely even stronger than the USA's to 9/11 — even at best it would take a decade for the rage to dissipate, and the Israeli people are unlikely to care about the opinions of people like me for the same reason the Americans didn't. | ||||||||||||||
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▲ | matthewdgreen 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
I was alive during 9/11 and this is more or less what we did, albeit in a more distant set of countries. I don't think we came out of the experience better off. | ||||||||||||||
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▲ | bavell 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Nope, we would have sent in strike teams, special ops, etc to get the hostages out BEFORE leveling the place. Anything different would face massive opposition and carry a political death sentence for whoever gave the order. | ||||||||||||||
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▲ | epolanski 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Few problems with your statement are: 1) Israeli government willingly favored Hamas governing the Gaza strip and completely cut off the Palestinian authority 2) Israeli government ignored their own intelligence and even allowed money and weapons transfer from Qatar to Hamas 3) Israeli intelligence knew October 7 was gonna happen and did little to prevent it 4) While October 7 is one of the most despicable acts of crime and terror ever happened, it has not happened in a vacuum. It has happened by people who are literally living in the hell and open prison the Israelis have created for them | ||||||||||||||
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