Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Did you actually want the U.S. to send in the Marines to save the old dictators? Do you actually think those old dictators COULD have been saved, once it was clear that almost the whole country was against them?
Or do you wish the IDF had been greenlighted to occupy the entire Arab world?
What exactly are you saying when you reference those states?
And how, exactly, could maintaining the Occupation in Gaza have made anything better? Hamas would still have all the power there it has now if the IDF were still there, and nothing liberal would be happening.
You see the Occupation as a lesser evil, but you neglect the part where, ultimately, at some point, the evil you see the Occupation fighting against becomes even more evil and ultimately takes over, because the anger and desperation of those oppressed by the occupation has become overwhelming. You forget that life would never have improved for those people had the Occupation taken place, and that the Occupation's perpetuation could never have produced new secular forces, because those forces(wrongly)would be seen as lackeys of your country's leaders.
That's your blind spot. You think your lesser evil is actually effective. History has proven that it isn't. And history has proven, over and over, that backing a bad situation in the name of ultimate good NEVER produces that ultimate good.