What the f***ing hell! Jake Tapper both-sides civilian causalities. I’m sorry, but did Americans really question the morality of those civilians killed or wounded as U.S. forces pushed their way into and across Nazi Germany? I doubt it. Oh, sure, most Germans in the 1930s and 1940s did not support their Nazi government, which waged war in Europe. But the masses of Germans didn’t do much to stop it and most likely had some sense of national pride (while they were winning) as Nazis rolled over Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Norway, the Balkans, Greece, the Baltic states, North Africa, Russia, and other countries.
Nonetheless, war is war. We have long ago — if ever, really — abandoned warfare mostly fought on open fields away from population centers. War invariably involves innocent civilians, and I wish the idiot MSM would stop pretending that it should not, as Tapper did while questioning a Biden spokesperson this morning about Israel’s tactics of prosecuting the war against Hamas. What a f***ing idiot! The terrorist group Hamas, which runs and “manages” the Gaza Strip, waged war on Israel, and now Israel is waging war back. The Palestinians may not have explicitly condoned Hamas’s first strike, but they have to live with the consequences of it because they have enabled Hamas for over 15 years. And let’s not pretend that people are entirely hapless and unaware of the government which they allow to persist. How do a people overthrow an autocratic theocracy terrorist group such as Hamas? Not easily, but for the oppressed to do nothing and acquiesce eventually leads to war nonetheless. Some people just don’t wish to be free, sadly. Or their idea of freedom is actually oppression which must be spread to other societies. But I digress.
People get the government they deserve and desire, from democracies to theocracies to dictatorships. People, when they desire, have risen up to topple all forms of government, so unless and until citizens collectively decide to change their form of leadership, then they are complicit in the acts of their government. I keep hearing that most Palestinians want peace with Israelis, yet they seemingly endorse Hamas by allowing its presence. As long as Hamas exists, then there can never be peace, and people appear to be copacetic with that. In this case, Palestinians are complicit — rightly or wrongly — in the war Hamas started with Israel. Can we stop pretending that we must value these people’s plight equally with the Israelis who were attached? Yes, the images from the Gaza Strip are unfortunate, but it is certainly not the other side of the same coin. (And there is a reason why other Arab countries refuse to open their borders to help Palestinian refugees. Their own kind has abandoned them, which is basically all you need to know about Islam and Arab civility. Not to mention Arab nations fear letting in terrorist groups [aka Hamas and the like] on their land, but Israel is expected to be neighbors with such terrorists. Arabs and Islam: The worst kind of people and religion. I’m just saying.) Hamas started the war, and Israel will finish it! How they do so is not open to bothsidesism critiques. War is not a sterile endeavor. Engagement is not cleanly drawn between combatants and non-combatants, no matter how much people or the moronic MSM wish it. It is bloody, uncertain, chaotic, random, and unfair. Just report on that instead of trying to calculate the number of “innocent” causalities on each side and calling out the disparities.