As if the list of disagreement was not long enough, nuclear deterrence is also a crucial issue on which the allies are not aligned.
Israel agreed in 2009 to an unconditional ceasefire in the hope that it had sufficiently weakened the group and created enough of a deterrence.
Only a small fraction of the incidents, 3,192 in 2011, are reported, and a mere 10 percent of those cases proceed to trial — hardly enough to create meaningful deterrence to criminal behavior and establish accountability.
In such a world, cold war deterrence is no longer enough.
Netanyahu appears to have launched the raid to decapitate Hamas's military leadership, destroy its armory, and show that Israel is strong enough to enforce a policy of deterrence.
In the 19th century, enlightened judges began asking whether the insane--that is, people whose minds did not function logically enough to understand either morality or deterrence--should be punished like other criminals.
According to the US, missile defense is important because a state that has nuclear weapons (say North Korea) and one that might one day (say Iran) might just be crazy enough to try nuking the US anyway, deterrence or not.
The problem, as he saw it, was that capital punishment no longer served its main purpose — deterrence — because it wasn't used enough.
"It shows we have enough material to maintain our low-level nuclear deterrence and so much in surplus that we can sell it in the open market.
