Pyrrhic Victories

I wonder what the IDF actually thinks it wins if they have to win it this way.

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli troops surrounded and attacked the home of a Hamas military leader Thursday in Gaza, killing him and his two brothers, Palestinian security sources said.

At least 10 other Palestinians, including a 2-year-old and a 13-year-old, died in the attack and 47 others were wounded, the sources said.

Emphasis added. What's to stop the young, impressionable relatives of that 2 year old and that 13 year old from growing up and becoming suicide bombers? What has the IDF won at the loss of two children?

I wonder what Hamas actually thinks it wins if they have to win it this way.

"The boom was just outside the entrance," said the owner of the bar, Gal Ganzman, his shirt covered with blood. He was standing behind the bar when he heard the explosion. "I'm alive, I'm fine," he said, visibly shaken. "One of the waitresses lost an arm but she's still alive."

What's to stop the young, impressionable relatives of that waitress from becoming IDF soldiers who buldoze unarmed activists and shoot Palestinian children?

This conflict, to me, has reached monumental levels of stupid, useless tragedy. We need to send in some blue-helmeted UN Peacekeeping troops to babysit both sides until they get the whole "killing innocent people" thing out of their system. And I mean both sides. The IDF is equally as guilty of keeping this vicious cycle going as is Hamas and the suicide bombers.