RE: Palestine
November 29, 2023 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2023 at 12:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Is it, though? Isn't "isreali excess" the status quo? Maybe the islamists wouldn't listen to the great satan but we probably could pressure isreal to change the status quo even if all other details remain as is. It seems the least worst scenario could at least include the end of apartheid or apartheid-adjacent policies.
Who knows, that might open up other possibilities in the near to mid to long term future?
As a personal anecdote. Whenever our firebase noticed an uptick in insurgent, resistence, or protest action..we scaled back our patrols and especially our home searches (especially...especially...the 2am ones...) as a matter of procedure. The idea being that, at least on some level, we were the fire under the kettle and if it was whistling we were working too hard. Working too hard was risky to us (you don;t wanna hear the odds of injury or death by position in a breach stack), and it wasn't beneficial to the locals. How might we convince other people to see the practical value in approaching such dynamics this way?
Who knows, that might open up other possibilities in the near to mid to long term future?
As a personal anecdote. Whenever our firebase noticed an uptick in insurgent, resistence, or protest action..we scaled back our patrols and especially our home searches (especially...especially...the 2am ones...) as a matter of procedure. The idea being that, at least on some level, we were the fire under the kettle and if it was whistling we were working too hard. Working too hard was risky to us (you don;t wanna hear the odds of injury or death by position in a breach stack), and it wasn't beneficial to the locals. How might we convince other people to see the practical value in approaching such dynamics this way?
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