Cole: Israel’s Strategy is Causing War, Not Ending It
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 28th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Cole: Israel’s Strategy is Causing War, Not Ending It
Juan Cole: Israel has no strategic war aims in Gaza because it has no large scale, long term strategy concerning the Strip. Its war is all about tactics and minutiae. How many tunnels and rockets can it destroy? How much damage can it inflict on the Hamas leadership? But tunnels and rockets can be rebuilt and the dead leaders’ cousins will take over after them. It is frankly stupid to think the Israelis can, in Mitt Romney?s words, kick the can down the road forever on making peace with the Palestinians. It hasn’t tried because Israel wants Palestinian land and resources and won’t give them up.
Will’s Policy on Child Immigrants: ‘Welcome to America’
During a Fox News Sunday panel discussion, conservative pundit George Will said that Republicans need to stop pushing to deport the influx of undocumented minors crossing the border into the U.S. “My view is that we have to say to the children, ‘Welcome to America. You’re going to go to school and get a job and become Americans,'” he said. “We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can’t assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.”