When are you gonna learn, Gunslinger?
Niether the US, nor its close allies can ever do anything without being viewed as the aggressors. We make a retaliatory strike against an enemy, it's an illegal act of violence, a crime against humanity. When this same enemy decides to strike at us preemptively, it's because we were asking for it, because we'd pressed the poor, marginalized, harmless little nation up against the wall, leaving it with no other course of action. There was no evil until we started our emperialistic enslavement. No bad men with guns... Just innocent shepards and farmers whom we forced into armed combat. We're the bullies, and they're the freedom fighters. If and when the case may be that the preemptive strike happens to be an act of terrorism, then it's a 'nutbag' fanatic who's at fault--a man whose actions cannot, in any way, be indicative of the general sentiments held by the people who subsequently march around, by the thousand, with photos and banners glorifying the actions of said fanatic. Conversely, when we strike back, it's a corrupt administration backed by a nation of naive, bible-thumping simpletons. And after we strike back, it's a unanimous: 'now you understand why they use airliners as cruise missiles.'
Example: The earlier thread on why we used the atomic bomb. Of course it was our fault the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. We had no right striking back. We certainly had no right striking back with superior technology.
And the same goes for Israel. We're co-conspirators with the Israelis, you see. A pair of wealthy, Zionist-ruled nations, worthy of unending suspicion and doomed to fall just as Rome fell, under the weight of our own sins and indulgence.
The funny thing is, this criticism is generally coming from the sidelines. It's easy as hell to reprimand a nation whose interests spread to every corner of the globe when you're a citizen of a country that has barely been a blip on the radar of modern international affairs. How wonderful it must be to know everything, to be infallible...How orgasmically cozy it must feel to be engulfed, head to toe, in the safety blanket of global insignificance.
Will the Israelis do it? I don't know. All I know is that there is no such thing as an Israeli preemptive strike. There has never been. Like it or not, they're at ideological odds with just about everyone else in their region. Make no mistake about it, gentlemen. They are hated, outnumbered and worst of all, feared. They strike when they're threatened, and because they do it with ruthless efficiency, because they do it with advanced weaponry, and because they do it against an armed enemy(verses an unarmed child or grandmother) that is either too busy praying or simply to backward to respond in like, they will always be viewed as the aggressor.
