Posted on 11/11/2023 4:11:05 PM PST by Silentgypsy
Newly-confirmed Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is pressuring Israel to give up on the idea of eliminating the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, claiming a prolonged war risks turning more of the Palestinian population into terrorists.
Gen. Brown, whose nomination stalled amid concerns about his “woke” record — including support for Black Lives Matter radicals and racial promotions in the military — expressed skepticism despite rapid Israeli gains on the ground against Hamas.
The Times of Israel reported:
The top US military official indicated Thursday that Israel will have a harder time eradicating Hamas the longer its military campaign in the Gaza Strip drags out and the more civilians that are killed in the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Just one more reason why Israel shouldn’t listen to anything our military has to say.
I was really low balling.
West said it perfectly. Ignore this traitor, Eliminating Hamas should be the goal.
How many times have these people been wrong on just about everything? F*CK’EM......
Michael Moore blames Republicans for Sept 11, and I would expect no less from this loser.
Speaker Johnson is the REAL highest ranking offical of the US, and he is standing with Israel. The rebreobate”) is a faulse nwo occupation government “leader.”
December 12, 1941: Newly-confirmed Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. urges the U.S. to not respond to Germany's declaration of war against the USA because it may make more of them want to fight the U.S.
Next to this racist affirmative action appointee, Milley is General McArthur.
Homo loving General doesn’t know how to win a war. Maybe he can send some of his social homos over to Hamas to work something out for the poor murdering terrorists. Dammit Israel’s war with Hamas is none of his or our military’s business if we are not going to support them. Biden has no mind to support them. He never had the guts to support them. He loves the muzzies to much and Obama is telling him to save Hamas’s murdering @$$e$. The GOD of Heaven is on Israel’s side. GOD said, “I will bless those that bless you and I will CURSE THOSE THAT CURSE YOU!!!” Islam is CURSED!! The United States is rapidly heading down that road and at a fast pace.
Err, that is an insult to good ole Charley Brown!!!
“...claiming a prolonged war risks turning more of the Palestinian population into terrorists.”
By that inane logic, the US risked turning the German population into terrorists when they fought the Nazis in densely populated cities in WW2. This handwringing clown would have been calling for a cease fire within 20 days. Civilian populations will always die as collateral damage in urban wars. Get over it.
What does the Q in his name stand for? I have an idea!!
Team Biden is preparing to sell out Israel and advantage Iran in every way possible IMO.
Incredible.
Another AA/DIE promotion?
Good grief...
Israel will have a harder time eradicating Hamas the longer its military campaign in the Gaza Strip drags out and the more civilians that are killed in the process.
I thought I saw civilians fleeing to the southern end of the Gaza strip. Wouldn't it actually be harder for Hamas to hide behind human shields when the citizens are leaving the area?
pressuring Israel to give up on the idea of eliminating the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, claiming a prolonged war risks turning more of the Palestinian population into terrorists.
I posted this screed on another thread on November 1:
-PJ
I think that we (the United States) have put too much emphasis on 1) proportional response, and 2) what the "Arab Street" thinks.Regarding #1, the United States, in some way, is probably still suffering a guilt at being the only nation (still) to use a nuclear weapon against an enemy in a time of war. There is no proportional response to that, other than that the nukes are stronger now and more plentiful now.
The admonition against Israel to be proportional in their retaliation for crimes against humanity towards them is really the USA promising itself that it won't use nuclear weapons again. However, the USA has pulled so far back from that red line that they won't even fight conventional wars with overwhelming conventional force anymore. The concept of decisive battles and decisive wins is now foreign to us, and therefore, to anyone else who has the strength to do the same against their own enemies.
When President Truman authorized the use of nuclear weapons against Japan, he wasn't calculating a "proportional response" based on the number of Americans already killed, he was looking into the future at additional American soldiers who will die from prolonged fighting and calculated proportionality against that. Similarly, Israel shouldn't be limited to the dead so far, either. They should be allowed to factor in the future casualties from a prolonged conflict with Hamas and take decisive actions now to prevent that from happening.
It's a stigma that we have to finally rid ourselves of. We, as a nation through our leaders, have to say that we've proven ourselves since 1945 that we prefer peace, but our strength means nothing if we're afraid to use it decisively to pursue peaceful ends. Anything short of decisive use of our overwhelming strength only emboldens our enemies to keep provoking, to keep winning incremental gain after incremental gain until they achieve their victories despite us.
This brings me to #2. The "Arab Street" is a bogeyman that the left created since the Iran hostage crisis to paralyze the United States into inaction in the Middle East. Our leaders keep convincing themselves to do nothing decisive because it will "inflame the Arab Street," or now that it will "coalesce the region into a real Military alliance against Israel." Is this really true, or is this just another bogeyman to talk us out of acting decisively? In 1979, we were told that whatever we did would become "recruitment posters" for the Islamic Jihadists, and so we did nothing.
I think the true "Arab Street" is tired of the constant fighting, and they're equally tired of being told that they only say that privately but that publicly they have to support their Arab neighbors. The Trump "Abraham Accords" was a very public peace plan between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain that belies the notion that Israel's neighbors don't want peace.
Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979 as the Camp David Accords, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad because of it three years later. The radical Islamists didn't want peace.
In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, followed in 1995 with the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated because of it by a radical Israeli law student. The Israeli student was angered by giving away the Gaza Strip to the PLO.
And now, the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel is said to have been done to stop the Abraham Accords from going forward.
The only real "Arab Street" uprising that occurred was the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings that began in 2011, led to the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and ended with the assassination of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. This was an entirely Arab uprising that had nothing to do with Israel or the United States (except for political tampering by the Obama administration).
So I think the idea that "the front against Israel in the region will coalesce into a real Military alliance against Israel" is likely to be more political inertia than reality, 20th century thinking, and not the reality of today. It's the radical terrorist groups that are inciting the violence, and Israel's modernized neighbors don't want those influences inside their own countries or they'd have taken in the Palestinians decades ago. It's only the throwback countries like Iran and their proxy states like Yemen and Lebanon that are pushing regional conflicts to destabalize peace with Israel.
I think that places like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and other wealthy neighboring states want to see the radical Islamists stopped and would be happy to see Israel do it once and for all. THIS is something they may have to say privately so that the religious fanatical Jihadists don't turn on them, but I don't think the bogeyman of the "Arab Street" coalescing against Israel is a real threat.
“ I expect him to be fired on day one of the second Trump administration.”
Well, you can expect that all you want - but first you have to answer why Milley wasn’t fired and court martialled for insubordination the day he called a press conference to contradict Trump about the walk to St John’s church while the fires in DC were still smouldering.
And, while you’re at it, figure out why Mike Flynn was fired and Robert Mueller wasn’t.
I care about a lot of things, this negro’s opinion isn’t one of them.
“Why is everybody always pickin’ on me?”
Regardless, I truly believe that at this point Bibi is not up for taking advice from the US. He may realize such advice has not served him or his country well.
Apologies to all. I’ve been AFK. Thank you for your thoughtful comments.
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