the spirit may violate Cholmondeley's Annular Grillage constant:

What's good for the goose.. gander too

I'll agree that, "just because Those assholes are behaving like traditional assholes - it's OK for us to do it too", is somehow implicit in these number games anyway. And is stupid by inspection. Like much else from there - and 'about' there.

Perhaps the Israelis are somewhat hoist by similar petard to the Russ: overdependence on techno- to equalize the numbers and provocations.

Russ gotta keep their nukes, as they cannot afford to float an army with Windoze, Itaniums and mp3 in every sojer's backpack.. (that the nuke arm is deteriorating daily - is Quite another problem).

Israel can't send a bunch of "equally armed - with rocks" sojers into a gathered mob, for macho hand-to-hand er 'fair' combat - either. So what to do? Walk into the sea and drown (the only 'solution' acceptable to at least the Loudest-mouthed F\ufffdhrers of the opposition. Still.) ??

It's gonna be a crap shoot.



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