Reply #37: I never said I support US involvement "on one side or the other."

[Kutjara]

What I believe is that we (and by "we" I mean every nation that has profited from the conflict) has a duty to ensure a just and stable peace is brought to the region. To me, "screw them all" is just the flip side of "stay the course:" it's a knee-jerk reaction to a problem that's proved too tough to solve, so we just drop it, regardless of the consequences to the innocent victims.

Dressing it up in a bit of "local religious squabbles" verbiage just makes it easier to ignore the genuine suffering of human beings. You might as well say, "Well, they're just primitives. Who cares about them?"

Taking sides is the worst thing we can do. Turning our backs is equally bad, because it's the same thing. Within a few months, Israel would overrun Palestinian lands and reabsorb them (no doubt under martial law).

So the "screw them all" argument is basically the "let Israel win" argument in disguise.