“I don’t want to hear anyone say, ‘Well, both sides need to just calm down and get peace,'” Huckabee said Monday on “Wake Up America.” “Both sides didn’t start this. This is a terrorist act, financed by Iran, carried out by a terrorist group Hamas, not a government.

“And I hope Israel acts with its extraordinary sense of urgency, and I hope that they put down Hamas once and for all. They need to be stamped out completely, because this doesn’t stop.”

[Too bad our own government hasn’t figured this out. For those who don’t know the headline reference, it comes from Cato the Elder and his declaration “Carthago delenda est,” or “Carthage must be destroyed.” — Ed]