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Sometimes, actually, war is the answer

By Hugo Gurdon

Published October 31, 2023 6:41pm ET

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Sometimes, actually, war is the answer — Israeli soldiers conduct a search for suspects of a shooting attack yesterday in the West Bank City of Ramallah, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. Israeli officials say seven people have been wounded, one critically, in a shooting by a suspected Palestinian assailant outside a Jewish settlement of Ofra in the West Bank. | (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, left-wingers repeated the slogan “War is not the answer” like an incantation, asserting that the United States should not respond with violence against Islamists who’d murdered 3,000 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.

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