Very Uninformed Thoughts on War

[debka_notion]

I'm very bad at keeping up with the news- but even hiding under my usual rock, I know something about what's going on in Israel. I was talking with Mom about it on Friday while I was cooking for Shabbos, and I was just aware of how very conflicted I was about everything, and how very impossible the situation seems: there seems to be no right action. Mom thinks that Israel isn't being proportional to the scale of offenses done to it. I agree- but being proportional didn't seem to work, so maybe this is the only solution: along the lines of "If what you're doing doesn't work, try anything else". Israel seems to be trying "anything else" or several "anything else"es. So far no luck. I don't know. I'm lost.

What hit me was how much Mom was thinking about the global consequences, and how easily the words "World War 3" became part of the conversation. I don't know if that was a result of leftover Cold War thinking or what- but it's enough to make me shudder. A war of terror and/or nuclear attack- Mom's thought was 'and', nor 'or'. Between that and global warming, we had a very pessimistic moment. I've read enough stories based in post-nuclear-catyclism worlds: I can't imagine that being real life for me or anyone I know. It's enough to take a situation where I'm worrying for my friends and turn it into a situation where I'm also worrying for my world, a bit, even if I think we are hopefully at least smart enough not to blow up the whole world over this.

Or maybe it's something about it being far enough away to be abstract...

Comments

[scaberry.livejournal.com]

I do see that Israel is pretty much destroying lebanon but with Hezbollah, its either us or them. Their platform is to destroy Israel because it is a Jewish state. Unfortunately, I think this is the only way. I just hope that as few innocent civilians are hurt as possible.