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  1. The Israeli drone team that killed seven aid workers lacked the evidence to order the strikes and twice violated the military’s operating rules, an Israeli military investigation found https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-to-allow-more-aid-into-gaza-after-biden-warning-over-u-s-support-49bc42e4?st=v362sr2qxf4viiw&reflink=share_mobilewebshare I know the description doesn’t match the link title. They haven’t updated the link title yet.
  2. So, the presidents of Syracuse and West Virginia say, “This isn’t working! We need a new set up where we are in the top tier!” mmmm-okay….
  3. Thanks. Then, I’m guessing a nation typically won’t have that happen in an active war.
  4. I don’t believe this is CR, because I’m asking a procedural question, not a political one - In a parliamentary system, I know they have elections on a schedule, and that the coalition government can call early elections (only done when polls show opportune times). If a coalition breaks because a minority party makes a break from it, does that require a fresh general election?
  5. President Biden is set to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure mounts on Israel over the killing of aid workers in Gaza https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/biden-netanyahu-set-to-talk-as-gaza-aid-worker-deaths-add-to-pressure-on-israel-9dee3793?st=3ib9pj7mlwlsvt1&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  6. Ok. I’ve just seen it, all my life, described as “attempted genocide” of the Jews.
  7. Israel’s problem isn’t solved by pushing Palestinians away. They are Iran’s proxies. Hamas has missiles because Iran supplies them (and to Hezbollah). Since we’re talking about Senitics here, can I ask about semantics? If driving a people away is “genocide”, can we then say that Germany (and most of Europe, and the Arab world of the mid 20th century) were successful in their genocide? Since they drove almost all of the Jews away?
  8. France’s Macron once advocated dialogue with Russia but now wants to keep all military options open in Ukraine, unsettling NATO allies. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/macron-france-russia-putin-b89d1177?st=x8c5u6gx36w4qe9&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  9. Israeli’s initial investigation into a strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza found its forces had wrongly identified their vehicles as hostile targets https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-blames-misidentification-for-strike-that-killed-gaza-aid-workers-f88da70e?st=eigwknbie7duiy8&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  10. You don’t think mistakes happen? When ISIS blew up a dozen marines and 100 Afghans during the flight from Kabul, the U.S. responded by using a drone to blow up a car carrying an Afghan loyal to the U.S. and his family. You don’t think mistakes happen?
  11. I’ve jogged for decades. I don’t carry any spray. The technique I use with angry barking dogs on the loose is: I stop, kneel low and start patting the ground and call them to me- “Here, boy! Here!” It confuses the hell out of them and they have always stopped. That said, I have seen some dogs behind fences or tied up on ropes that I wouldn’t rely on that to work.
  12. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-conflict-threatens-to-spill-into-open-warfare-1bd60453?st=hif5r8w81rfcoa3&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
  13. You might have to remind him of the time we accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade Fog of war, indeed. Three Chinese journalists killed, and many false reports that it was deliberate.
  14. I think the Germans and Nazis had more to do with making genocide “a thing”.
  15. Innocents being killed is what makes all wars so tragic. Innocents being killed in a war that you prosecute while knowing you can’t win can be a crime. I have been (am) on the side of Israel, in this conflict, Hamas being a monstrous and illegitimate force. Eradicating Hamas is a worthwhile goal. I don’t believe Israel has a strategy that can accomplish that goal. It’s not enough to set a goal (eradicate Hamas), apply all your resources (call up all the reservists) and say you have a strategy. You have to evaluate whether your resources are enough. Clearly, they aren’t. Israel should have done a lot more thinking and planning, and less reacting. They have Hamas, they have Hezbollah, they have the West Bank and they have Iran all to deal with. (I confess my shame at not realizing this until now, when it was clearly a losing strategy in November.) No one (except Iran) wants to hear that Hamas wins. I’m afraid that’s what happens when you pick a losing strategy.
  16. This is my usual approach- as a rule, I am slow to attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. I apply this rule to all factions.
  17. I think it was a horrible screw up. A screw up that was a result of Israel not being capable of completing their war goals. This war, where they attack Hamas in a populated area (where Hamas actually is), and chase all the people away to another area, where Hamas remnants then follow to regroup and prepare for the next attack, is a stupid, failed idea, and events like the WCK are inevitable. Israel didn’t have the troops and willingness to really eradicate Hamas, in the time frame they have. They are trying to be clever, using advanced weaponry, where something closer to the Red Army taking Berlin was needed (and if you don’t have the manpower and will to do that, you need another strategic goal). Looks like Hamas will be the winner, because Israel’s plan couldn’t achieve their goal, and Hamas will take over the West Bank in short order. I think things are about to really get ugly. (PS- I think they need a new government, because a new strategic plan is needed, and new goals. The current one is a failure and sticking with it will just waste more lives).
  18. We once had an embassy in Iran. Do you know why we don’t anymore?
  19. Spell out your comparison. Are you comparing Ambassador Stevens to the Iranian RG commander?
  20. Take this political opinion to the cloak room
  21. Iran has killed, through its Houthi proxy, at least one U.S. sailor and seriously injured a few dozen more (I don’t know if that one dude ever came out of his coma). Iran, through its Hamas proxy, killed a dozen U.S. citizens on 10-7, and is holding five more U.S. citizens hostage (unless they’ve been tortured to death). Good for Israel. Fuck Iran.
  22. Is this the class you build when you think you may have a tough year, so you build it early, get everyone rating it high (because you have so many committed) and use as an argument for keeping the HC if things go south during the season?
  23. Two years ago, Ukrainian soldiers who retook Motyzhyn found the bodies of its mayor and her family in a shallow grave. These days the front line is hundreds of miles away, but the village is adapting for a long war. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukrainian-village-scarred-by-murder-of-mayor-and-her-family-prepares-for-long-war-a3ebd750?st=lea0ywzj98c3cjr&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  24. I think he’s also pretty good at managing employees, making it clear what their tasks are, how he expects them to complete them, and that they’re not done until the task is completed successfully.
  25. Well, hell. Sounds like you’ve got me all figured out.
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