Reply #8: I know. What the hell?

[napoleon_in_rags]

"A woman was sliced in two by a tank shell and her infant son obliterated."

I'm trying to parse this as an information age military strategy, and I'm just not seeing the benefit. I mean I support Israel in general, but I'm sorry, this here is just bad, the kind of badness that is spreading all over the world at the speed of light no matter how much media clamp down there is. And my sense as a couch sitting TV watching American is that Israel, indeed the whole situation over there, is just beginning to get on my nerves. We're having these vast economic issues, requiring these changes and so forth, and I want to focus on that. But the situation over there just doesn't change. Its like the baby in Eraserhead, it just keeps on screaming.

When I actually use my brain though, I see through all of it to the underlying reality, which is that there is NEVER going to peace in the middle east so long as the world depends on oil and they are sitting on a mountain of it. And the real steps we can take to ending this shit are domestic, transforming our economy away from oil dependence, which is exactly what Obama is working on while we sit here and bitch. But the problem is that these things going on really do DEMAND our attention. Maybe that's point.