example where America was allowed to win a war whereas Israel is being continuously persuaded to go light on civilian deaths but it's war and as everybody knows the civilians are mixed in with the bad guys. So it's extra hard to spare the civilians in this particular case.

But here's the part where he loses me. Number one, analogies are a terrible form of argument. Have I ever said that before? Like almost every day. If you have to use an analogy it's because you don't have an argument. Once you see that pattern you'll never be able to unsee it. Let me say it again. If you have to use an analogy, not just if it's a convenience, if it's a convenience for deriving something that somebody was unfamiliar with that's perfectly good use of analogy. I'm just describing a thing. But if it's your argument that this thing is like this so they should operate the same, that means you don't have an argument because the analogy is never the thing. It's a different thing. You can't argue this thing with a different thing. The fact that something about that thing reminds you of the other thing is no argument. That's no argument.

So and to prove my point, was the US allowed to win the war in Afghanistan? No. The US could have killed every civilian in Afghanistan and taken full control of the country but we didn't. So we had a constraint. Did we do everything we could have done in Iraq? Not really. I mean you could say we won the war but do we run Iraq? Do we own Iraq? Are they even allies? Doesn't look like it to me. I think that we did not have the freedom to destroy enough of Iraq and their civilian base until we owned it. We just didn't have that.

So I would say that the examples are bad. And I would even say attacking Iran, all we could do is attack something that didn't look like it would have much civilian casualties. So at least not many. So I would argue that first of all the analogies don't work and we're currently in a war with Russia and we're also not killing too many of their civilians. So I would argue that probably what's happening is that in the modern world it's harder to run a war where there are lots of civilian casualties. It has more to do with social media and the fact that the news is not completely controlled by governments anymore and that people can find out directly what's happening. The more you know about it the less freedom the military is going to have because there'll always be people say there's no reason to be killing so many people. But if you're not watching, stuff gets done. So I think it has more to do with th