Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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Praise for Voice
"A smart fellow...I do like, recommend and learn from Barbera's blog." -Roger L. Simon
"Your blog is bullshit"- anonymous angry French reader.
Reaons takes an honest look at defending the IDF. While it is true they face a more scrutiny than any other military in the world (I would say even more so that ours), we can't dismiss their use of human sheilds and the like. I don't like the human shields and using them to look for booby traps (although, as I pointed out below, if the story that they all knew where the traps were is true there is another side to the story. And as Victor David Hanson asks how does someone shooting a kalashnikov one minute become a civilian the next?) and it shouldn't be overlooked. Questions need to be asked and thankfully Israel is a deomcracy and there will be questions asked and courts convened. To ask any less is to act in the same manner we denounce the hard left for when rationalizing people like Arafat and his ilk.
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