{"id":184,"date":"2006-06-27T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-06-27T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T19:36:56","slug":"restraint-blah-blah-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/restraint-blah-blah-blah\/","title":{"rendered":"“Restraint.” Blah Blah Blah."},"content":{"rendered":"
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So once again it is up to the Israelis to show restraint <\/a><\/p>\n

The international community urged restraint as thousands of Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border poised for an offensive over the kidnapping of a teenage soldier.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Maybe they should.<\/p>\n

But I wonder what the US would do if they suffered an attack on US soil in which a proportionate number of American troops were killed and kidnapped.<\/p>\n

I have no idea how the American and Israeli militaries compare in size. Would the ratio be anywhere near 100:1?<\/p>\n

If so, how much restraint would the Americans show?<\/p>\n

Besides, I don’t think the kidnapping is the sole catalyst here.<\/p>\n

(Am I urging bloodshed? Of course not. I’m just commenting on further evidence of an already-obvious anti-Israel bias all around.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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