Always the Military Option
Uri Avnery; 1/4/08
War with Syria? Peace with Syria? A big military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip? A cease-fire with Hamas? Our media discuss these questions dispassionately, as if they were equivalent options. Nobody cries out: War is the height of stupidity! Carl Von Clausewitz, the renowned military theorist, famously said that war is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. Meaning: War is there to serve policy and is useless when it does not. What policies did the wars in the last hundred years serve?
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=109483&d=1&m=5&y=2008
Tags: Always Terrorism, Israel, USA, War