Israel's Right to Self Defense

Can you imagine what would happen if one missile came from Cuba and struck the United States of America? Would the American military be justified in retaliating? How far should America go in terms of retaliating? What should be the conditions of the cease fire?

First and foremost, if America got attacked by Cuba there would be an immediate retaliation. Americans would not care what the rest of the world had to say. In the words of John McCain "Americans don't live history, Americans make history". Can you imagine how the US population would respond if the government did nothing? There would be riots within hours in every major city. The government would have no choice but to act. Remember the President takes an oath to defend this country from enemies both foreign and abroad.

Next comes the question of justification. Would the US be justified in its retaliation to the attack? Of course we would. What is the point of having a great army if we don't retaliate against attacks on the homeland? If Cuba starts bombing us then we have the right to defend ourselves. Obviously some civilians would die (in any war this is known as collateral damage) but Cuba knew that when they initially bombed America. If your worried about civilians dieing don't start a war. Any country is justified to use military force when the safety of its citizens is threatened by another country's military.

How strong should the retaliation be? Just using common sense I would think the retaliation should be strong enough to serve two purposes. First, to let Cuba and the rest of the world know that even the thought of attacking America is so devastating to your home country that it is unthinkable and second, the retaliation needs to set Cuba so far back that they will not even have the opportunity to attack America for decades to come. If you just do a light bombing all your doing is pissing people off, but if you lay waste to the country the people will know that their government messed up when they attacked America.

Last but not least comes the conditions of the cease fire. There ought not be a cease fire until Cuba can no longer carry out attacks against the United States for decades to come. They will need to be taught a lesson about how to interact with the US. There is no point of declaring a cease fire if nothing has been solved. To solve the problem the American government would need to weed out every Cuban responsible for the attack and execute them. This will stop the attacks and at the same time send a message to not mess with America.

Now reread the article but instead of saying Cuba say Palestine and instead of saying America say Israel. Its the same thing. Let Israel defend itself. Let Israel do whatever is necessary to lay a foundation for future safety. If Israel does not exterminate the terrorist threat this time it will keep coming back for more.