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Osiris, respectfully but forcefully, I must point out that you simply do not understand the nature of this regime. If you think that there is any deterrent effect in our power or the Israelis', you do not have the measure of the man we're dealing with. If you believe that he doesn't mean what he says, vis-a-vis Israel, you are the exact same kind of dupe as Chamberlain, when he simply could not fathom that Herr Hitler meant exactly what he said.
Furthermore, you have managed to mis-read my other posts, wherein I expressly rejected the invasion of the entire country. That is not a part of what I conceive is possible to do in response to the crisis.
As for sanctions, they can only be effective as part of a much more active and muscular package of tools that we could use. By themselves, they would be worse than useless, and seeing 'how the sanctions work out' is about as weak and defeatist an approach as one could imagine.
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
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