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		| Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop Military commanders frequently will want to do things for tactical reasons that may not make strategic sense.  To take a completely unrelated example, the British military thinks that our commanders in Iraq have done a whole variety of things for force-protection reasons that have had the effect of frustrating our counter-insurgency efforts.  If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then politics must dictate military strategy.
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 True enough.  But from your earlier statements I had concluded that you believed that Israel did not have any military, tactical reason for what it was doing -- that Israel was simply engaged in wanton destruction.