Originally Posted by
Joint****eFighter
More people will die, which includes civilians. It's better to go nuclear (a figure of speech) on them to get it done ASAP. It saves lives.
There's a lot of room between fighting with one hand tied behind one's back and nukes. You know that, I know that, the wise remark is not worth the time you spent typing it.
I choose not to get involved in pros and cons of Israel, though my objective analysis of that nation, since it's founding, is that they are an interesting model of the warfare state: something that was really bad for the Soviet Union and has had a less than wonderful effect on my own country.