"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009

As the current US-Israel assault raged, Times columnist Thomas Friedman explained that Israel's tactics both in the current attack and in its invasion of Lebanon in 2006 are based on the sound principle of "trying to `educate' Hamas, by inflicting a heavy death toll on Hamas militants and heavy pain on the Gaza population." That makes sense on pragmatic grounds, as it did in Lebanon, where "the only long-term source of deterrence was to exact enough pain ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Shawn McConnell - Jan 21, 2009 - 1:25 PM PST
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by Shawn McConnell - Jan. 21, 2009

Chomsky continues to be the most insightful writer on foreign policy and world politics.

This is the best piece on Israel's attack on Gaza I've read thus far.

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