Arguable, Steve -- when he is responding in kind to someone who has already fired first, and is attempting to pre-empt and prevent his doing so again; particularly when it is 'the other side' who has declared the war-footing and prevented any meaningful negotiations from taking place, & endeavoured to inhibit the response by deliberate placement of civilian 'shields' against attack. You reduce a complex situation to absurdity by such grotesque over-simplifications.

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