I suppose if the Palestinians didn't use woman, children, and the elderly as suicide bombers the soldiers wouldn't be as trigger happy.
The Palestinians only have themselves to blame, their militants purposely try to blend in with civilians and use them as shields. That's why they set up their rocket launchers next to apartment buildings.
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
