[yyyk]

Being attacked should rule out 'war of aggression', but I guess the phrase seems to have lost any meaning in modern discourse. Apparently you can spend all the time calling 'death to X' and then get shocked when others take you seriously.

[randomlurking]

> Being attacked should rule out 'war of aggression'

It usually does. The argument here is about the proportion of the response.

[dlubarov]

There were tens of thousands of Iranian rockets fired at Israel just since Oct 7. Hezbollah did the majority of the launches, but there's no doubt about who sent the rockets or for what purpose. What would be a proportional response to that?

[WrongAssumption]

Proportion is always the argument concerning Israeli responses, never with anybody else.

[guerrilla]

You seem to have forgotten that the US attacked Iran first, which made this regime even possible in the first place.

[reliabilityguy]

> You seem to have forgotten that the US attacked Iran first, which made this regime even possible in the first place.

Bombing of US marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 was funded, and organized by Iran. Just take half day off, and read a bit on the role of Islamic Republic in Middle East in the past 40 years. I guarantee your stance of "US attacked first" will change to the "unclear" at the least.