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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
…Are they safer when they have given the next generation of people in the region a reason to hate them - because they have killed their friends and families?
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Sure they are. USSR and UK all felt much safer politically and militarily by decimating Germany. US also felt safer by nuking Japan. Destroying terrorist infrastructures is very effective. It’s neither easy nor quick to recruit people who are ready and willing to die on a moment’s notice. It’s neither easy nor quick to re-stock missiles and re-build launch bunkers. These events go hand-in-hand. Provocations from militant groups are useful in these types of conflicts, because they allow for justification of a lot of military response action without too much international pushback. Israel understands it well and is using it to get as much advantage against Hamas and Hezbollah as they can. Why wouldn’t they? US will soon tell them to stop and retreat and then there will be another decade of smouldering peace and quiet before the next provocation.