Perry,

Sorry for the delay.

The rape isn't proven yet but if it is, I'm certain the culprits will be fully prosecuted. The Hadifa case is regretable, but in terms of an entire country of 24 million with 100,000 occupiers, stuff like this happens. Fact of war.

If we had the attitude you are promoting, then nothing good would ever be accomplished anywhere. Do you think there were no deaths or dislocations in Germany from 1945 to 1949? Or in Japan during that same period?

War sucks as it applies to affected civilians. It always has and always will. But to whine and moan about it while ignoring the potential greater good has a paralyzing effect and is counterproductive. Bad things will happen - prosecute the controllable bad things but accept that there will be random bad events that can't be controlled.

That's it in a nutshell.



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>Why don't you go ask the relatives of the raped girl, or the relatives of the families slaughtered in Hadifa, or the families who have no home left because we destroyed their home.
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>We caused a can of worms to open. And we continue down the same destructive path, hoping to close it.
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>How many deaths, before you realize we can't just continue this way?
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