MacGregor - Collective Punishment Only Breeds More Enemies

MacGregor is one of the only people worth listening to about global conflict in my opinion. Listen to what he says he and tell me he doesn't make total sense. Why does the world continue to give ear to war mongers over wise men like him?
"We don't want a war. We need to come to terms with reality. It's best to negotiate an end to this thing. Solve the problem. Military power is not the answer.
They've already killed more than two thousand Arabs in Gaza. They already killed the 1500 Hamas fighters that found their way into Israel. So the people that perpetrated most of the atrocious crimes are dead. Citizens in Gaza paid a terrible price. Collective punishment doesn't work very well. Historically collective punishment breeds new enemies. The enemies don't vanish, they get worse. Hamas is not so much people as it is an idea. It is an idea made much more attractive by the brutality meted out to them in the aftermath of these attacks. It's easy to recruit people when their families are killed when their homes are destroyed. Getting the rest of the region involved is not a problem. If Gaza is subjected to the kind of punishment that Netanyahu wants to bring out, the Egyptians are going to have a tough time staying out of it. If they get involved in it, you're going to see everyone else pile on. We don't want it. We can't afford it. We are bankrupt. There has got to be another way..."
Do you agree with his analysis?
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