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2024-04-11 Home Front: Politix
America Is Now in the Business of Losing Wars
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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top

#1 Military Industrial Complex (MIC) Game limits. Killing them all leaves nothing for future hunting seasons.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-11 05:21||   2024-04-11 05:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Winning a war means the war ends. Why do that?
They kept Afghanistan going for 20 years! Immensely profitable.
Posted by Uleremp and Company7042 2024-04-11 06:34||   2024-04-11 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The solution for Afghanistan was to turn Pakistan into a parking lot. Pakland was the Taliban's base of operation. No one wanted to do that.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-04-11 07:04||   2024-04-11 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not working in Gaza despite a complete lack of any air defense, armor or any weaponry more sophisticated than an AK. Pakistan is much larger with a functioning military and nuclear weapons.
Maybe it's not worth "winning" if it costs our soul.

Posted by Uleremp and Company7042 2024-04-11 12:57||   2024-04-11 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ constraints of international law and public opinion. The news cycle has bored the conflict to stagnation. Israel should have wiped up operations by year's end and called it a Hanukkah blessing.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-11 15:00||   2024-04-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe it's not worth "winning" if it costs our soul.

Liar.

The rabbis ruled back in the second century before Christ that Jews are not required to allow themselves to be murdered. And Micah said, “What does God want if you? To do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.” Followed by Hillel the Elder, who told the smirking pagan, “All of Jewish law is ‘Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.’ All the rest is commentary — now go and study.”

Given that Hamas announced shortly after 10/7 that if they were beaten back this time, they would commit 10/7 atrocities over and over again until they conquered all of Israel from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. Which means that the Israelis are required to save their souls as well as their bodies by fighting all Gazans who do not surrender until Gaza is no longer capable of attacking. That they must do so without taking women as booty and beheading babies does not seem to be a problem for them.

Jew-hate spiked as news of the massacre started coming out on October 7th, and just kept growing exponentially from there, long before Israel had done anything at all.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-11 16:59||   2024-04-11 16:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Arguing against a anti-Juice troll isn't gonna help. Their hate will prevail over logic, history, and justice
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-11 18:25||   2024-04-11 18:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through USAID, will provide an additional $53 million in urgently needed humanitarian assistance for the people of Gaza and the West Bank affected by the ongoing conflict. This brings the total amount of funding announced by the U.S. government since October 7 to more than $180 million.
This additional funding will support partners, including World Food Program (WFP) and international NGOs, to provide urgently needed food, health, nutrition, shelter, protection, and water, sanitation, and hygiene assistance. This includes support for the treatment and prevention of acute malnutrition.
Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-04-11 18:34||   2024-04-11 18:34|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^^^
Samantha Power - ranked right up there with Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett, she epitomizes the paper-thin facade of the Obamanites that infest the administration.. Consider this 2011 Washington Examiner article as a premonition of what she has been since, and remember SHE was, as the UN Ambassador, suspected to be one of the of the major violators of the FISA 702 system during the end of the term.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2251893/the-ugly-truth-about-obama-advisor-samantha-power/

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-04-11 20:33||   2024-04-11 20:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Shanty Irish
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-11 20:43||   2024-04-11 20:43|| Front Page Top

#11  "Right now, there is no higher priority in Gaza than protecting civilians, surging humanitarian assistance, and ensuring the security of those who provide it."
Sorry I'm late to the party but what was most glaring to me was there was no mention of the hostages
Posted by Jan 2024-04-11 21:14||   2024-04-11 21:14|| Front Page Top

#12 They dead
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-11 21:17||   2024-04-11 21:17|| Front Page Top

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