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Yep, and the US won the Vietnam war too. /s > The very uncomfortable truth here is that Israel is demonstrating how to effectively destroy insurgencies in Gaza
by nl 1y ago
Yep, and the US won the Vietnam war too. /s
> The very uncomfortable truth here is that Israel is demonstrating how to effectively destroy insurgencies in Gaza and Lebanon.
Neither Gaza nor Lebanon are insurgencies - Israel is trying to destroy terrorist organizations, not rebellions.
> You cannot pussyfoot with nasty, brutal tactics and expect to accomplish anything. This was a lesson the west learned in the world wars, and we seem to have collectively forgot it again.
Neither world war was either an insurgencies nor a war on a terrorist organization, so unclear why this is a relevant example at all.
A better example of how to win that type of war would be the Malay insurgency (especially when compared to your example of the Vietnam war)
- DiogenesKynikos 1y ago> Neither Gaza nor Lebanon are insurgencies - Israel is trying to destroy terrorist organizations, not rebellions. Terrorism and insurgency are not mutually exclusive. The classic example of a modern insurgency, the Algerian resistance against the French, was led by a terrorist organization, the Front de libération nationale (FLN). More correctly, it was a political organization that used terrorism as a tactic, and which eventually became the government of an independent country. Hamas is a pretty similar case to the FLN (though the PLO was more similar in the old days, in terms of ideology).
- aprilthird2021 1y agoEven Israel was founded by terrorist groups who waged an insurgency against the British