Its not about the cost, its about sending a message.
war only benefits warlords and authorities
I’d contend that it often also benefits the people being attacked by the war, unless you think it would have been reasonable to let the Nazis roll across all of Europe unopposed
this. this. a thousand times this. also applies to arab muslim terrorists who seek to rape, behead, burn and slaughter jews at will, but the “nazis are bad, “palestinian” hamas are poor poor cinnamon rolls that need to be allowed to hide under hospitals” haven’t quite made the connection yet
That’s because there is no connection.
Being against Israel’s indiscriminate killing of civilians doesn’t make Hamas terrorists the good guys. They are still despicable terrorists. It simply acknowledges that you don’t remove a terrorist group by a military operation unless you plan to kill the whole population. Which -given comments from Israel officials- they know very will and proceed none-the-less.
You would really think people finally got that after the last “we are are fighting terrorists”-shitshow of more than two decades and its impressive results.
This is what kills me about republicans. This is their cold war fantasy. 40 years of looking at the iron curtain, it was all for this kind of fight. And now that it’s happening, and russia is grinding itself down and we bring home not a single casket, they are cowering in mother’s skirts. This should be the cynical war hawk’s wet dream - your enemy collapsing and you only pay the bill in cash, not blood.
This doesn’t make sense to you because you’re not seeing the whole picture. Putin isn’t the enemy or Republicans. They’re in his pocket. He either bankrolls them, or has sufficient Komprimat on them to keep them in line.
