Yeah, you've got a point. However, it wasn't "our romantic view of war" that I was referring to : it's the terrorist's "romantic view" of death and destruction."
Hey, I know we may have to do it again. As a historian with a passion for socioanthropology, I can see circumstances heading in that direction...again.
OK...the Israelis won't use biochemical weapons in Gaza for the same reason I hope the terrorists are bright enough not to : it's just a tad too close to their own neighborhoods. I'm saying that both the US and Israel have conventional weapons that'll do the job without turning the whole place into an uninhabitable wasteland.
If we nuke anything...I say we nuke Mecca and the meteor the Islamonazis worship. Just the SUGGESTION of us nuking Mecca sends them into PAROXISMS of terrified shouting, "Hey, you guys can't nuke Mecca".
The obvious answer is "'Course we can, silly. We just choose not to." [at this time] ROFLOL...the reaction is fun to watch. Nuking Mecca is attractive for two reasons: destruction of the Meteor and the "spiritual home" of their moon god, and also it's far enough away from Israel that there won't be such a problem with fallout.
There is no Joshua bin Nun in site.
Even the most right wing Israel politicians only want the Arabs expelled, not killed.