Old idiom come to haunt

I refer to that old saw from a movie about Vietnam:

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

Maybe it isn't Vietnam, I may be confusing that quote with the smell of napalm in the morning. In any case, this idiom I used to to throw around among my chums back in grade school is an utterly cringeworthy statement and a case in point for why child recruiting into armies works as well as it does.

It's on my mind again while I watch the IDF decide this is the way to deal with Hamas. My own country is supplying weapons to make this ethnic cleansing go faster. While soldiers haven't yet been caught on video working through buildings and shooting anything that moves, they're sure dropping enough bombs and missiles to do much the same thing. They're bringing bulldozers into 'cleared' areas to 'secure' their captured areas.

There isn't a military solution to the Hamas problem short of genocide, which is where the IDF is going right now. The only true solution is political, but the authoritarian inflammation response to the Hamas attacks has kicked up to cytokine storm levels and we get to watch the bloody human carnage as a result, and see the despoliation of one of the most well known symbols of Judaism.