By Uri Avnery
".....WE SHALL not evade the hardest moral question of all: is it permissible to risk the lives of our soldiers in order to save the old people, women and children of the “enemy”? The answer of Assa Kasher, the ideologue of the “Most Moral Army in the World”, is unequivocal: it is absolutely forbidden to risk the lives of the soldiers. The most telling sentence in his entire essay is: “Therefore…the state must give preference to the lives of its soldiers above the lives of the (unarmed) neighbors of a terrorist."
Oh my God! How horrible. This is the opposite of the Petraeus strategy which prioritized protecting the population, even at the cost of more soldier casualties in the short run, under the assumption that a safer population would make the troops safer in the long run.
ReplyDeleteDoes the IDF understand COIN? What exactly is their strategy?
no link by the way.
ReplyDeleteFixed.Thanks.
ReplyDeleteTheir "strategy" is to kill as many civilians as is possible to still claim plausible denial anand - so "shocking" eh? Cut the act out
ReplyDeleteAnand's phony disingenuousness is wearing thin.
ReplyDeleteOnly a 12-year-old could be that naive.
The "strategy" of the IDF is to slaughter, torture, and brutalize as many Palestinians as possible, irrespective of age, health, sex, civilian status, or anything else. All clear now?