Andrew:
What on earth’s got into you? You channeling Neville Chamberlain, or what?
Sharon’s at war. You win a war by killing as many of the enemy as you can
find.
Your logic (forgive me if I am misrepresenting it) seems to be: “The
killing of Yassin will get the Arabs real mad. More of them will join
terrorist groups. They will be more highly motivated to kill Israelis.
They will be more dangerous to the rest of us.”
So what? Can you name any action by any party in any war, of which the same
could not be said? I bet after we sank the Japanese fleet at Midway, the
Japanese got real mad. I bet recruitment went up; I bet they were better
motivated.
After the RAF bombed Berlin for the first time in August 1940, Wm. Shirer
reports that: “The Nazi bigwigs were outraged. Goebbels … now gave
instructions [to the press] to cry out at the ‘brutality’ of the British
flyers in attacking the defenseless women and children of Berlin. Most of
the capital’s dailies carried the same headline: COWARDLY BRITISH ATTACK…”
These Germans sound pretty mad.
I guess by your logic the British attacks were a “defeat” for Britain.
Whoa.