The obvious success of the "Noboby fucks with da (fill in the blank)" policy

Let's see, two kidnapped soldiers leads to the invasion of one country by another.

And America's paralysis of all things involving Israel ensues.

It's easy to criticize Hamas and Hizbollah, they deserve a hell of a lot of criticism -- taking advantage of misery and oppression by encouraging tragedy.

But if this was another sovereign nation invading yet another one, I think it is safe to say we'd be apoplectic.

But it is Israel, which means any criticism of "This seems a little over the top" will automatically mean this sort of response:

"You fucking Anti-Semitic, Daily Kos reading, Ned Lamont supporting liberal, America-Hating, porn-watching, abortion performing, non-troop loving Scumbag!"

I've counted less than half of those things are true.

So it sort of creates a bit of a difficulty having a dialogue about criticizing Isreal's foreign policy and military action -- and whether it is effective.

I certainly see the logic of the "we don't take any bullshit" form of diplomacy, but at some point -- oh maybe say 24 years ago -- it should have been pretty clear that all the tit-for-tat shit accomplishes is more fucking killing. Of course, this same logic applies to Hamas and Hizbollah as well (and the United States).