Having achieved nothing but slaughter and elevating Hamas, the Israeli political backlash now begins

I wonder how the pointlessness of the war (Times of London link to the finger-pointing beginning in Israel) fits into Michael Walzer's just war theory? And what does its pointlessness do for advocates Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg, who trumpeted the thing, not remembering their mistaken judgment on Iraq? I believe the Gaza disaster, thoroughly predictable, as Iraq was, will actually help marginalize these guys, and raise J Street.  This war also underscores Mike Desch's analysis in Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism– Israel's robust democracy is no bar against the most boneheaded strategic decisions.                                   –Phil Weiss