Palestine

[Rev. Rye]

The trouble is that the US military has suffered too many humiliating defeats. People are losing their fear of it.

Remember that the US left Lebanon in defeat. It completely lost in Afghanistan. The side it's backing in Ukraine is losing badly, and the Pentagon recently said that supplying weapons to Zelensky is "reaching the end of its rope." 

So the US doesn't look as invincible as it maybe once did. If Israel was beaten and the US humiliated again, the news would just shift its focus to some other crisis (probably China) and people would get all gung ho about the next thing.

I get you, the current government needs a war it can win, even if the enemy was a militia stranded in a strip of land. After all, Biden is in it to make the headlines back home,

If the enemy is a guerrilla force that's managed to convince the surrounding population that it's somehow the lesser evil, that's EXACTLY the sort of enemy that keeps beating the US military. And it's not even because it's got Allah on its side or anything like that (because the Viet Cong did the same fucking thing and they sure as shit weren't Muslim), but because every time you cut the head off this hydra, a couple new ones are going to pop up in its place.