Is it just me, or does anyone else read that author's name as Rosnerstein? Whatever, the guy blows off any chance of improving the lives of citizens through diplomacy, or "talking". That quite well sums up the Israeli position. Whatever happened to "war is the failure of diplomacy"?

NC TOM:

Whatever happened to "war is the failure of diplomacy"?

World War II happened.

World War II was the first war not based on failed diplomacy?

spackle:

World War II was the first war not based on failed diplomacy?

No, merely a counterexample to the oversimplification.