Recent content by Brad Sallows

That price was paid in 1948 or so. Everything since then is a price paid because some people wanted, and some want, to extinguish the colonization/occupation. Opening hostilities by behaving like medieval men-at-arms on a chevauchee will turn out to have been one of the worst in a long history...

I laugh at how very emotional some people are about some men who are very emotional about free tampon machines.

Much of civil disobedience is vandalism. Burn something, break something, tear something down, obstruct something.

Yes; otherwise, it wouldn't be disobedience. These things end one of three ways: the authority changes its policy the authority enforces the rules and the dissidents fade away the dissidents are ineffectual and pointless and fade themselves away I figure this one ends by method (3).

One man's civil disobedience is another man's soft as baby shit.

Probably something along the lines of what was done in Germany and Japan post-WWII. The conditions which allow groups like Hamas to succeed include support by other nations (supplies, refuges). The solution is obviously more than Israel alone can achieve.

Dude, you're harshing the mellow.

That problem has to be fixed in the schools. Pointless to try and change habits after they're formed. Canada and its provinces have to get out - and stay out - of the habit of treating symptoms of problems as if they could solve the problems.

I'd rather see them earning much higher wages (supporting themselves and paying taxes) as roofing crews and tradesmen (for examples of the former and latter).

It's possible that Israel is trying to achieve the doctrine of "win this fight and all the next ones". It's unquestionably true that a society's militarism can be substantially reduced - at least for a few decades - if defeated by a sufficient margin.

Right now there are probably about 400,000 people turning 18 each year. I doubt enough positions can be found for all of them, and some would be "excused duty" for reasons not necessarily related to severe disability. So some people would get a pass, and some would be f*cked. It wouldn't...

Which has nothing to do with my point, which is that it can all be avoided by not mixing unprotected and protected things. And that can only be done by whoever controls the assets. "Collateral damage and casualties resulting from the siting of legitimate military targets is the fault of the...

No LPC ownership nexus, I suppose.

Can't seem to find any news at all about how the ICC prosecution against Putin is going.

Other countries are misguided. For those that believe in the abstract of the "IRBO", Hamas cannot be allowed to succeed. The short lesson drawn by observers will be "Well, it worked." Political support for Hamas or against Israel will tend to buttress Hamas's will to continue the fight rather...