If the Israelis wanted to cause civilian casualties, the death toll would be in the tens of thousands. But since Hamas keeps attacking from and hiding amost civilians, civilians die too. Or the civilians were hiding Hamas, which doesn't make them civilians anymore.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
