Hey, everybody! Comment-poster extraordinaire Myria’s gone and done it! Go visit “It Can’t Rain All the Time.”

Her first major post takes on those who believe Israel’s military response to the recent string of suicide bombings is ill-advised; and because military action is ill-advised — and because diplomatic solutions are impossible (C’mon. Let’s face it) without the demise of Israel (the right of return? Yeah, that’ll happen) — many pundits would have Israel do, well, nothing.

Which Myria will have none of:

Israel cannot simply give up and allow the murder/suicides to continue unabated. That simply is not an option and wouldn’t be for any society. And yet normal forms of deterrence won’t work against people who are not only willing but eager to die if they can just take a few of their enemy with them. Normal forms of deterrence don’t work against irrational players. Israel can’t magically turn the Palestinians into rational players, so their only option is to increase the cost of their actions to the point where even irrational players would be deterred. In the end that may not be possible, the Palestinians may have reached the point where they are so irrational nothing short of wiping out the lot of them would deter them and at this point Israel is (thankfully) not willing to do that (yet). But you have to at least try and raise the cost sufficiently to deter these bombings, the alternative – simply waiting for your next batch of dead citizens to be hauled to the morgue – is not acceptable.

(I hope this doesn’t mean you’re through haunting the protein wisdom comments section, Myria. Such perfidy will not stand…!)