Posted on 07/20/2006 5:09:11 AM PDT by Curlyhead
Like Hamas, Hezbollah‘s goal is total eradication of Israel and every man, woman, and child in the country. Hezbollah gets its marching orders from Iran. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as recently as July 8th, told the Islamic world to “remove the Zionist regime” in Israel. In October 2005, he infamously said that Israel must be “wiped off the map.”
The links are clear. Iran is still chief terror-controller and supporter in the world and is calling the shots, literally, in Gaza and Lebanon. Iran arms and controls Shi’ite factions in Iraq who murder as efficiently as their Sunni Iraqi counterparts. Iran has been behind Hezbollah attacks in the Middle East, South America, Europe, and Africa.
The fight Israel is waging today is our fight. Radical Islamic Jihadists are the enemy and they are waging global war in support of vicious Islamic fascism. The people of Israel are firmly in their sights and so are we.
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But, we all know, that if we were to get involved in a war with Iran, the Dems would be outraged because Iran has absolutely no connection to Terrorism, and anyone who says they do is a liar.
Sigh.
Most Americans could not point out Israel on the world map. I do think that most Americans support Israel, but they don't really understand how small Israel is and how important it is that Israel can never lose.
So you can now imagine, WHY, there are so many discontent, Muslims in the States.
http://www.ict.org.il/organizations/orgdet.cfm?orgid=31
Sadly, I believe most Americans just want it all to go away. No passion and no belief. They either are unaware of history and facts or just not interested in being involved with something bigger than themselves.
This is why so many people who voted for GWB (God bless him) are angry at him now (including myself) - he is NOT giving us Americans the big picture view we NEED to have!
have you ever seen that map that shows the SLIVER of land Israel is in the Middle East? Unbelievable how a whole continent of NUTS could be so fanatical, literally, about it.
it is clear and to the point in that it spells out in multiple chapters how, why, when, and even gives directions on killing Christians and Jews, and Mulsims who "they" consider to be not "true" believers. "Nice" book for a "Nice" religion
What chapters - do you know?
Your so right. It would be nice if Bush would articulate where we stand and why? Americans need a "Come to Jesus" moment on primetime.
Perhaps this is one element that contributes to the confusion. Missiles don't necessarily maneuver in "space" (as in outer space, with the best examples being cruise missiles, Harpoons, et al), but they are maneuverable. They're essentially unmanned airplanes with warheads - and they are under power. Then there are "ballistic missiles" - but are these missiles per your definition, or should they be called "ballistic rockets"?
Then there are the ICBMs, or Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Are these guided or unguided? I understood that these can be guided during their flight after they pass through the apogee of their arcs and return to the atmosphere where control surfaces can again function, but what do I know?
To throw another wrinkle into the mix, isn't a missile also under power for most of its flight, while a rocket is under power only during the boost phase, and then falls under the force of gravity? The MSM have never been able to distinguish among the many nuances required to be understood to clearly portray technical terminology correctly. And I think this example illustrates that it the truth is much more complex than the mere difference between "guided" and "unguided". Maybe a simpler differentiator may be determined by whether or not they fly under power and more or less horizontally rather than following a ballistic trajectory, ie up under power, down under free-fall. Dictionary.com indicated that ballistic refers to "... moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity...". So moving under momentum and gravity rather than under power needs to be part of the definition.
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"Not enough Americans understand that Israel's fight is our own."
Interesting. So what US government should do in your opinion ?
Well, there's the peace at any cost faction, which considers no fight to be their own.
Then there's the if conservative are for it, they must be against it faction. (considerable overlap with the peace at any cost group)
Then there's the antisemitic faction.
There's the Islamic faction, many of which are antisemitic, a large percentage may not be but since the leaders of their religion are as long as they follow them their support will be.
Don't forget the isolationists. These tend to be more conservative on other issues than the peace at any cost group, but the lines get blurred often.
Those factions make up a lot of people, and those are just the people who have strong feelings about the issues. It doesn't count all those who's main feeling about the situation is apathy.
Despite all that, support for Israel is still strong in the US.
Bob,
MSM reporters , in general, have no technical background or real world experience with machines (other than their cameras and laptops), tools, or weapons. Most have no military experience to draw on, and neither do their editors. So, when they try to write knowledgeably about such things, they tend to get it wrong, and then get their panties in a wad when you have the effrontery to correct them. To them, the J-school degree makes them all-knowing and infallible.
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