\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/FareedZakaria\/status\/1746902924851048686\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Let’s look at “proportionality”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Had the US and Western Allies observed Zakaria’s Marquis of Queensberry notion of war [2], World War 2 would have looked a little different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US, UK and the Netherlands would have had to stop after sinking the Japanese fleet, and liberating the Philippines, Singapore, the East Indies, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Air strikes would have been limited to single engine aircraft, and the US would have been limited to six aircraft carriers. Once the Philippines were returned, that’s it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nGermany? Once France, the Low Countries, Denmark and Norway were liberated, we’d have had to stop at the Rhine River. The Soviets, likewise [3], would have been obliged to stop at the Oder River, the frontier between pre-war Germany and Poland. Hitler would have been left to figure out how to try again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, we – like Israel – would still be at war, 3\/4 of a century later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a national disgrace that Zakaria has a TV show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[1] That is to say, a proportional response from Israel. Not from Hamas or Hez’b Allah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
[2] on the part of westerners, not those who want us dead or subjugated<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[3] Although people like our modern Left always give Stalin a pass on the rules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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