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Reader comment on item: How Serious the Strain in U.S.-Israel Relations?
in response to reader comment: War is good for these countries

Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Apr 6, 2015 at 06:14

"I believe this would enable Islam to have the same fighting skills that the original 30-year old war allowed their Christian predecessors."

Miliitary technology has moved on quite a bit in the last 300 years. Muslim 'fighting skills' count for very little at 1200C.

".We must note that the West have not been able to defeat any Muslim nation in the last 2 decades (Lebanon , Somalia , Iraq and Afghanistan are a case in point)"

What stops outright Western victory is having to play by Queensbury rules and abide by the Geneva Convention. If these eminently commendable but ultimately abitrary rules were ripped up - then technically it would be possible for the West to wipe out all muslim combatants in a couple of hours. Unfortunately this is not possible because the colateral damage would be too great. However, as is well known - at times in the past the point has been reached where this factor in the equation has been set aside. viz Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Tokyo,Dresden.

Hopefully such a point will never be reached again - but who knows?

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Title Commenter Date Thread
English-Speaking Union [319 words]Michael SApr 6, 2015 02:55222666
Your crystal ball [61 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
Howard BrownMar 29, 2015 09:58222554
According to Yaalon it would take 2 weeks of sustained bombing of Iran [59 words]Shep FargotsteinApr 2, 2015 22:31222554
Ebola, anyone? [629 words]Michael SApr 6, 2015 15:58222554
Hoping for happy days [297 words]martin kesslerMar 29, 2015 00:42222546
Leave Them To Themselves. [257 words]Charlie G.Mar 28, 2015 21:10222538
sick joke [281 words]Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullahApr 2, 2015 01:22222538
The inevitable war [592 words]Michael SMar 28, 2015 16:52222535
War is good for these countries [198 words]Debanjan BanerjeeApr 5, 2015 11:56222535
Valuable (?) military skills [373 words]Michael SApr 6, 2015 03:30222535
too hot [182 words]Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullahApr 6, 2015 06:14222535
1Debanjan should be careful about what he wishes for [125 words]PrashantApr 7, 2015 03:01222535
Dear Mr. Prashant [316 words]Debanjan BanerjeeApr 18, 2015 08:49222535

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