The Bible specifically allows killing as an act of war and considers it different from murder. The protagonists of the book also steal stuff all the time.

These commandments are for controlling behavior inside a society, not outside of it.

Trump is a senile and a deeply unserious person. His existence makes me believe that souls might exist because he very much seems like a person without one. He doesn't think about his actions deeply which is why I believe that if he suddenly turned religious, I don't think much would change.

Would it be better if he was, though?

It's weird when two horrible entities in the world hate each other. Is it popcorn time?

Well, in a democracy it's important that people who want this can try to make it happen via official procedure, which this is.

That said, the people who want this are assholes and probably in bed with Russia.

I suppose the hit on Bin Laden couldn't have been launched without significant presence in Afghanistan. Why you stayed there after that though was weird. That seems to have been Obama's mistake.

More than many people did, though. Including you.

That would practically guarantee boots on the ground in Iran and a regime change in 3 months.

Iran's leaders are dumb, but I don't think they're that dumb.

Yeah, citizens and nuclear weapons research are perfectly equivalent targets.

The USA responded by attacking the wrong country

Not just one! They got Osama bin Laden eventually though so amazing success

How about moving to non-fossil alternatives? Like 4 decades ago? Gee that would've been a great idea.

So they will most likely use terrorist attacks, targeting civilians, because that’s the best hope they have to end the war: when the people back home get serious about ending it as they’re taking losses.

Remember what happened the last time a major terrorist strike happened in USA? That's the number one way to get ordinary civilians of a democracy to support an actual war almost 100%. It's the kind of strategy that makes Pentagon say "yeah lol be my guest let's see what happens".

That's how they've viewed US citizens since about 1979. Trump is an asshole, but going after the Islamic Republic of Iran is not in the top 100 worst things he's done.

Yeah, it was 25% per month when Milei was elected and been going down ever since almost every month. Whether it's thanks to or despite him is a more difficult question of course.

You're biased, based on your handle. You think Gaza is important.

I'm also biased, because I live next to Russia. I think defending against Russia in the current situation is much more important than anything that could happen in Gaza. And if you want to take the historical perspective, Russia has violated my country and the people of my country several times during the last 300 years at least, and probably more. Middle East obviously has the potential to beat us on the historical record, given how the whole of human civilization practically rose in that area, but still. It's not like this is happening for the first time over here either.

It's not that I don't care about their tragedies, it's just that it's nowhere near a top priority right now. If Russia stops being a crazy asshole, things farther away from my country's borders may become more important to me. Still, note that if what I'm suggesting is true, Putin and Russia are partially to blame about what's happening In Gaza. With a handle like yours, you probably cared about Gaza already before Putin's manipulations, but half of the eyes of the lefties in west were looking at Ukraine. They are not looking at Ukraine anymore, like they should be doing.

Please put an age restriction on politicians, it would solev sooo much nonsense.

While I partially agree on this, let's consider some cases:

• Hitler's reign 1933-1945, his age: 44-56
• Stalin 1922-1952, age 44-74
• Putin 2000-?, age 48-?
• Pol Pot 1963-1981, age 38-56
• Louis XIV 1643-1715, age 5-77 or 16-77 if you count coronation as the start (sacre bleu jesus fuck)

Youth is clearly not enough. Age limit + term limit might be a useful combination, but it all falls down when you allow somebody to just grab all power anyway and reset all the rules and limits.

Who knows for sure? But we can assume that Putin had something to do with Hamas launching the strike just by the fact how much it helped him. It did cause half of the world to turn their eyes away from Ukraine, to believe that Gaza is now the most important crisis on this planet.

You forgot the worst one: Putin, age 72 years.

You’re part of the problem.

Says the guy with the flag of Russia on his name. My irony detector went supernova.

But hey, props to you for not hiding it like many others here do.

I think it's a real war already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

Captured or arrested is the word you're actually looking for. Or, as it currently stands, released.