McNulty's Sober Companion 

Raised on Cape Cod. Living in West Philly.
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We got to this situation where we are today because we seriously underestimated their ability to attack us. We were all happy to believe that their training exercises neutralizing tanks and attacking settlements was them playing macho but that they were too incapable to actually do it. His point is super important.

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Ingenuity and ideology are not the same thing. These guys are smart, but their ideology absolves them of responsibility for what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank, or Lebanon. They literally think that they are doing God's work, even if turning their skills to productive things would make everyone better off.

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This is completely false. Israel has done everything in its power to support the creation of a Palestinian state.

Absolutely none of this conflict is the fault of the Israelis. Gazans had every opportunity to change their lives in 2005. What happened?

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I disagree. Ryan is working on the idea that you must know your enemy, and Israel's (or Bibi's) greatest mistake to date has been to downplay Hamas (and other players) as capable of what they can do. If Bibi had read the memo from a year ago, if he had heard the intel from his own and Egyptian sources, he could have headed off October 7. But he said that Hamas was incapable of that. We'd better know what those guys are capable of.

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As much as I despise the Russian soldier and their collective ideals.... this was low down and dirty. The man was obviously heavily wounded. No threat at that particular moment. You can’t do this. This is going to be used to great affect inside Russia to create even more hatred towards Ukraine and those of us who are facilitating you fight against the Russians. WE hold ourselves to be better people than this. I have ZERO DOUBT if this continues to happen “accidentally” or otherwise; ALL THE MON…

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If we did that then when X country invades Y country Y country could commit any war crime possible

War crimes are still war crimes

Do you think that lad wanted to die in a shell hole in a foreign land