Recent content by G-Man

That depends on how you define "pure chance", but in any case the way it was obtained is irrelevant. What's important for this argument is that once Israel obtained this information, it passed it on to the US.

1. Many reports do infact talk about Israeli special ops involved in some US military operations (lastly, the 2003 war in Iraq). 2. Unlike other US allies, Israel was an active front in the cold war. Do you really think NZ would've sent troops to the other side of the world if it was under a...

I find that the best time to think is when you go for a walk, preferably at night when everything is quite. But it's a pretty subjective issue. Do whatever it is that allows you to think about the subject clearly. That is - anything which doesn't involve you sitting infront of the paper/computer.

I don't think it's true. Israel hasn't given up - we just never cared a lot about it to begin with. You might recall a few years ago, during the height of the intifada, the UN condemned Israel for every possible action it took against terrorism, refused to describe bombing innocent Israeli...

Why would an attack on Iran require nukes - especially if it's done by the US, which has more than enough conventional forces to reduce the entire Iranian military to rubbles, let alone its nuclear sites.

Maybe I wouldn't have to reply my arguments if you'd answer to the point. About the scenario being unrealistic - even your own source, the article you linked to, talks about exactly such scenarios: " More than once he was faced with a ticking time-bomb scenario: a captured Vietcong guerrilla...

I don't know, but I doubt you do either. It depends on many factors - the amount and type of nuclear material, the building bombed and the type of bombs, the location of the site, winds, etc. Seeing as most of Iran's sites are in mountain areas and many of them are in strong bunkers, and that...

Why is it unrealistic? You contradict yourself here - you claim that we don't know reliable it is, but we do know how unreliable it is. These are obviously the same thing. And AFAIK there's no proof that torture is completely unreliable, so it can have practical uses. First, as I already...

Are argument is very simple - at this point you're saying that this is the law, and therefore it's just. I don't accept this and I think we should morally examine our laws to see if they actually are moral. By your standard, for example, we'd still ban homosexuality because untill a few decades...

1. What do you base the claims that "tens of thousands" would die on? 2. When did Israel suggest that Iran can't strike back? It's a well known fact that Iran's Shihab 3 missiles are entirely capable of reaching Israel, not to mention their proxies in Gaza and Lebanon, and to a lesser extent...

The law is supposed to be the result of moral decisions, not the other way around. The situations are the same because they both involve a similar moral equation - On the one hand, the safety of the country's civilians, and on the other - depriving individuals of certain rights. The idea is...

You'd have to explain that. What makes the right to, say, health or being free of pain (which torture deprives of), different from the right to life or the right to freedom? You're looking at things from the wrong perspective - what we're interested in is preventing crimes which would happen...

Israeli cities aren't generally designated as Jewish or Arab. Israel isn't really trying to solve this problem. The only issue is to reduce their attacks on Israel, and that is being achieved, among other things, by reducing the arms smugglings...

All the things you say here are true not just in regard to torture, but to the other forms of violence countries use. Just a few days ago I was in a very interesting discussion about the different forms of punishments. As you probably know, one of the elements judges take into account is...

I don't agree with everything new historians say. I agree with the things they say and proove in a reasonable way. The fact that these acts were wrong in their own right doesn't mean that they were considered as wrong during war time. Look at how the Soviets treated the Germans just three...