A hospital in the Israeli town of Beersheba has been hit as Iran fired a barrage of missiles, with the conflict between the two countries continuing into a seventh day.
Iran said the strike had targeted a military site close to the hospital, not the facility itself. Dozens of people were reported injured in several locations across Israel, including near Tel Aviv.
After visiting the Soroka Medical Centre on Thursday, Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said Iran’s supreme leader “can no longer be allowed to exist”.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military said it had targeted Iran’s nuclear sites including the “inactive” Arak heavy water reactor and Natanz facility.
This is my hope.
Vietnam taught the US that war actually means something when your country’s actions force you to become involved when you didn’t want to be.
I don’t think we learned anything from Vietnam. Though I do hope this will make Israelies realize they aren’t gaining anything for the common person, just more hate, loss, and economic struggle eventually.
Lessons we were supposed to learn from Vietnam.
The government will lie to its citizens and use propoganda to push an agenda to help their careers over valuing our populous’ lives, money, or feelings.
The media will allow misinformation to flow so long as they can make personal/company prosperity off of it
Support systems are lacking for the troops as well as benefits.
In the last week we have seen calls to cut aid to troops, citizens, and the media overflow with misinformation to push forward agendas that are not in the best interest of the common citizen.
Some of that’s true, yes.
But you’re missing the bigger point here: the antiwar movement in the US flourished because people who didn’t want to fight were forced to fight, and the American government saw that the military draft was self-defeating and, while it still exists statutorily, it is effectively nonexistent because they don’t want another anti-war movement interrupting the gravy train.
The number of active duty troops needed by the U.S. to enter battle gas fallen drastically. We aren’t actually trying to occupy anything. For instance we sent 130,000 into Iraq in 2003, and the needed numbers have fallen more since as warfare advances. The U.S. has over 2,000,000 troops and 700,000 reserves. The draft was retired because we don’t need it. We just view it as the draft being gone because that’s what the government wanted us to see/believe. Yet every male in the U.S. is required by law to sign up. Propoganda works wonders on us all. Will we see a ban occur, someday I’m sure, but it won’t be before we know volunteers far outweigh what’s needed for the greed of the rich.
Thank you for your commentary.
Sorry, sitting in meeting bored. Didn’t know what to do with the time
No worries. :)