Good article by Sam Harris on the Izchhhhael situation

as mere bluster?

ever likely to happen, does it?

Israel is a modern, industrialised, highly-militarised and (lest we forget) nuclear state. How the fùck are Hamas going to destroy it exactly?

waiting for her to come out and shouting how much you want to fúck her and how hard you'll do it, then she would be within her rights to at the very least seek a restraining order.

And if she came and punched you in the face, she'd probably be considered to have acted if not exactly proportionally, then with justifiable force.

rubble (whilst killing quite a few children in the process), that would probably be considered a somewhat excessive reaction, no?

All it takes is a terrorist capaign to provoke a robust reaction, a massive PR drive with atrocity porn in the west, liberal sympathy in the media, and weak, unpopular governments desperate to look tough to garner some credibility and before you know it ... *boom*. And no sign of redgumano on AWIMB for a few months.

Admittedly, Israel does a sturdy level of support in the West, but I wouldn't rule it out entirely in the long term.

Now, can you help with the whole 'f**king the ginger bird out of Dr Who' thing, at all?